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Subject:Re: humor of the wordy type. From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:32:32 -0800
> "How I met my wife" by Jack Winter
> Published 25 July 1994 - The New Yorker
>
This is an amusing exercise in what the Harper's Dictionary of Contemporary
Usage calls "lost positives."
I once wanted to start a comapny called Gruntled, Kempt & Ept: Human
Rsources Consultants.
(Of course, I also wanted to start another company of contract programmers
called If, Then, Goto & Else.)
--Wayne Douglass
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