[thechat] New Netscape browser released

[Martin Burns]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, aardvark wrote:

> > From: "Luther, Ron" <Ron.Luther at hp.com>
> [...]
> > (... and when the revolution came, the ever-vigilant FrontPage
> > developers community was first against the wall ....) [1]
> >
>
> you know, i never could get a handle on temporal verb tenses when
> dealing with future events that have happened when not yet affected
> by a past event, provided you take an action now...
>
> i wish i could find that page in HHGTTG that explains all this...

Chapter 15, as cited:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/guide.html

It's easy to Google when you can remember key phrases like 'wioll haven
be'

Of course, FrontPage developers will be second against the wall, leaning
up against the bloodstains of the Marketing Dept of the Sirius Cybernetics
Corp (and there's even a time-travel link there too as a copy of the Guide
which fell through a temporal void describes the Marketing Dept (etc) as
"A bunch of mindless jerks who were first against the wall when the
revolution came")

Cheers
Martin

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