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You Laugh You Lose Thread

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That's why mechanics should go to school. Center of Gravity 101.

 

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The horse is bigger than the car.

 

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Damn drunk cops.

 

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That has to be one of the stupidest metermaids to give a cop a ticket.

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Reminds me of an old Robin Williams standup routine...

 

In a TV evangelist style voice...

 

"Reach around the back of your TV set, and FEEL the power of comedy! It'll shock your ass across the room, but somebody'll get a laugh."

 

- j

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png

 

From: patl@athena.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)

Subject: The True Path (long)

Date: 11 Jul 91 03:17:31 GMT

Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs,alt.slack

 

When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, ‘C-h for help’ and ‘“foo” File is read only’. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

 

Ed, man! !man ed

ED(1) Unix Programmer's Manual ED(1)

 

NAME

ed - text editor

 

SYNOPSIS

ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]

DESCRIPTION

Ed is the standard text editor.

 

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Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!

 

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

 

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root		  24 Oct 29  1929 /bin/ed-rwxr-xr-t  4 root	 1310720 Jan  1  1970 /usr/ucb/vi-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  5.89824e37 Oct 22  1990 /usr/bin/emacs

 

Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

 

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

 

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem$ ed?help???quit?exit?bye?hello??eat flaming death?^C?^C?^D?

 

Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.

 

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

 

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

 

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

 

When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

 

TEXT EDITOR.

 

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a Unix standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

 

Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

 

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Vorpal bunny!

 

http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Merely-a-Flesh-Wound-marshamallow-peeps-424080_640_480.jpg

 

Is that Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Ha!

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