> At 14:22 2003-03-06, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > >>To Whom It May Concern, > >> > >>Beware programmers named after Roman gods with eyes (and faces) on > >>both sides of their head bearing pre-compiled software. He sees the > >>outside _and_ inside! Get it? He's trying to see inside your system > >>even while he seems to be looking the other way. > >> > >>Pretty slick, Chris! > >>
Oh *I* get it now! "January", as in the Roman god "Januaricus" (spelled back then with Roman numerals of course), had two faces. The joke then is that *Chris* January, descendent of this Roman god of programmers (they used punch cards back then I believe), is really *duping* the OP into revealing his PC's innermost secrets by distributing in binary form a... dare I say it... Trojan <Dr.-Evil-pinky-to-lip-thing>? > >>(I'm trying to lay off Van Sickle for a while. He's too easy.) > > Nah, I have to admit, that one wasn't that easy for me. > >Care to elaborate a little bit. > > > Any joke that requires elaboration is in fact not a joke at all. > > Better luck (to me) next time. Uh-uh-uh there Rands, always remember the Second Rule Of Hi-Larity: "When you got lemons, you make lemonade" (q.v. how I salvaged it above with the Hi-larious rewrite of history). I think I picked that up on APHC in fact...;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
