Re: CHAT: (no subject)

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 01:26 , Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> >
> >> #define QUESTION ((bb) || !(bb)) /* (c) W. Shakespeare */
> >
> > Did they have copyright back then? And even if they did, it'd be well out
> > of copyright by now, Shakespeare's been dead for more that twenty-five
> > years... (at least according to Aussie copyright law. I know they've got
> > something different in America and have no idea about the UK, which would
> > be the one that counts)
>
> I cry you uncle, it is but a tagline and therefore supposed to be funny
> rather than accurate.  ^_^
I know, I just felt like a bit of nit-picking. And how does one `cry you
uncle'?

Tristan

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War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
                       - BSD Games' Fortune

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