[Rhodes22-list] Idiotic People Rant

[Robert Skinner]

Herb, I'll see your ID10T and raise you a BOFH.

         http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard1.html

/Robert

Herb Parsons wrote:
> 
> I've heard lots of songs and artists myself. Well, at least until the
> mid-80's, when I got tired of "new stuff", and I'm on your side on this
> one.
> 
> I've never heard of "such and such" OR the band "so and so", either;
> but I'd have to say, their imagination for song titles and band names is
> severely lacking...
> 
> In the computer industry, and I'm about to reveal a trade secret. I
> probably shouldn't, but I'm getting older so I have an excuse. We have
> an error called ID: Ten-T. If you use the term, it sounds very official,
> and those not "in the know" will usually look at you with a blank
> expression, and let you continue with whatever your doing, since the
> problem appears to have an official sounding error.
> 
> I wrote it out the way I did, because writing the shorter version would
> have given it away too soon, and the story wouldn't have been as much
> fun. If you spell it ID10T, the meaning gets more obvious...