On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:00 -0500, Jim Mercer wrote: > for days now, i've been trying to remember a quotation, which i vaguely seem > to remember popping up in trn/nn or some USENET newsreader of old, along > the lines of: > > "the telephone, once commonly available in cities, ...." > > or something like that. > > ring a bell for anyone? >
I get the distinct feeling it's a quite from an obscure scifi novel/film or MST3K style quote, though I could be wrong. It does ring a distant bell, but I'm not so sure about on Usenet. Maybe it was a Gopher thing? This newfangled Googly-thing finds nothing - it'll never catch on. Anyone got some old Winchesters lying around that need a spin?