off-topic, a propos of nothing

Jeff Wilson · 21 Sep 2009, 05:59 · from 2009-September.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:59:20 -0500
Subject: (urth) off-topic, a propos of nothing
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Greg Bates wrote:
> I can't seem to read this article at all it appears to be
> formatted very poorly and perhaps you should have
>  
> spell-checked it or run it through Notepad or something
> to make it plain text before you e-mailed it to us, but I
>  
> think you were too excited about your banal revolutionary
> fantasies to consider spending a few moments making
>  
> your manifesto readable.

Making it too readable would detract from the ironic comment on 
manifestoi as a genre.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
IEEE Student Chapter Blog at
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