[FRIAM] Problemats

[Steve Smith]

Nick wrote: By the way, I hate that word problematic.  It suggest to anybody as old as I am that there is somewhere in NYC a cafeteria, called a Problemat, where one can purchase a juicy problem by putting a few coins in the door of the problem you like, and pulling it out, piping hot and ready to chew on.  I have gone looking for that store in NYC, and never found it.  And I always thought Problemats were similar to Bureaucrats... people who made a life's work of either creating or perhaps solving Problems... or more likely *creating* problems so we have something to *solve*!  All of us on this list are therefore Problemats of one stripe or the other,   the only disagreement is who is who! I like your apprehension of the word better, it is somehow... ahem... "less problematic" than mine!  Oh... and can you break a buck, I see a two-bit problem there in the machine I'm interested in! - Steve

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