My Bonney Lies Over the Ocean

Subject: My Bonney Lies Over the Ocean
From: William Blank <wmblank -at- JUNO -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:01:35 -0700

Yiddish has a great word: Narrishkeit. It means something like
"foolishness combined with wannabe attitude." Our friend Bonney provides
us a wonderful example.

I responded to his original request for comments to his narrishkeit and
questioned his distain for capital letters.

And so for your listening and dancing pleasure, here is his response:

>>i have nothing against capital letters, it's just that the internet's
>>history is rooted in the unix operating system and so, quite often,
>>character strings are case-sensitive; in order to simplify typing,
>>especially with a new keyboard, we communciate via e-mail and internet
>>using lower-case letters as much as possible; only if there is some
>>real need to use capitalization do use them.

Hhhhmmmmm.

William Blank
Laconic Documentation Services
Laconic [La-kon-ik] (adj) Direct, to the point, with no wasted words
"Creating clear, concise, accurate documenation for technical
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