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From: Woody on 10 Jun 2010 04:56 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >>> In article <indv0690i6vcbrf79r8gi0p9i5ddskliu1(a)4ax.com>, >>> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Snarking at "the very existence of Arial" >>> >>> The existence of Arial - along with the stupidity of funding bodies > > > - >>> has contributed to the wasting of hundreds of hours of work in this >>> department, and probably tens of thousands throughout British >>> universities. >> >> Why? > > Arial causes brain injury, lassitude and melancholy. And how is that detectable within a university? -- Woody
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 10 Jun 2010 05:01 On 10 Jun 2010 08:56:53 GMT, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: >> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >>>> In article <indv0690i6vcbrf79r8gi0p9i5ddskliu1(a)4ax.com>, >>>> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Snarking at "the very existence of Arial" >>>> >>>> The existence of Arial - along with the stupidity of funding bodies >> > > - >>>> has contributed to the wasting of hundreds of hours of work in this >>>> department, and probably tens of thousands throughout British >>>> universities. >>> >>> Why? >> >> Arial causes brain injury, lassitude and melancholy. > >And how is that detectable within a university? I am *so* pleased I'd just put my tea down before reading that! I'm still sniggering. Cheers - Jaimie -- To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. -- Nietzsche
From: James Jolley on 10 Jun 2010 08:41 On 2010-06-10 09:56:53 +0100, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> said: > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: >> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >>>> In article <indv0690i6vcbrf79r8gi0p9i5ddskliu1(a)4ax.com>, >>>> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Snarking at "the very existence of Arial" >>>> >>>> The existence of Arial - along with the stupidity of funding bodies >>>> - >>>> has contributed to the wasting of hundreds of hours of work in this >>>> department, and probably tens of thousands throughout British >>>> universities. >>> >>> Why? >> >> Arial causes brain injury, lassitude and melancholy. > > And how is that detectable within a university? Via the league tables or whatever they use? Only messing.
From: zoara on 10 Jun 2010 09:55 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > I *really* like the way it's bright enough to dip through "next page" > links. That happened on the very first page I tried. Impressed, I was. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 10 Jun 2010 11:06
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >>> In article <indv0690i6vcbrf79r8gi0p9i5ddskliu1(a)4ax.com>, >>> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Snarking at "the very existence of Arial" >>> >>> The existence of Arial - along with the stupidity of funding bodies > > > - >>> has contributed to the wasting of hundreds of hours of work in this >>> department, and probably tens of thousands throughout British >>> universities. >> >> Why? > > Arial causes brain injury, lassitude and melancholy. It gives me terrible wind. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm |