On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Dave Land wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Ronn! Blankenship <
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read
>>>> text.
>>>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>>>
>>>
>>> And yet, Jeopardy has been on the air for 25 years.
>>
>> On the *air*. NOT on internet e-mail lists.
>>
>> Apples and zebras. :)
>
> By which you mean, of course, that they are in the same class of
> objects:
> things that are commonly used to represent letters of the English
> alphabet to children. Just so, Jeopardy, an oft-instructional program
> on a medium that is often used to waste time, is like an Internet
> mailing list, on oft-instructional activity that is often a waste of
> time.
Yes. Apples and zebras are both carbon-based life-forms.
Julia
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