Early Wolfe : bow ties

maru · 01 Apr 2005, 18:26 · from 2005-April.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru)
Date: Fri Apr  1 18:26:36 2005
Subject: (urth) Early Wolfe : bow ties
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Jim Raylor wrote:

>In the first published GW story 'The case of the
>vanishing ghost' does anyone else see a refrence to
>Harry S. Truman?
>
>btw extra points if you can say what the S. stands for.(-;
>  
>
Nothing I think.  Or so an old game of Trivial Pursuit
informed me.

~Maru

Further AI koans:
Master Foo was iterating along the sea shore
when he saw two acolytes arguing over a decrementing
register.  "It is adding negative one" claimed the first.
"No- it is subtracting positive one" asserted the second.
Master Foo considered and said: "Not adding, not subtracting-
Equalling!"

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