Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:17:37AM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2005 20:39:32 +0000 (GMT), wpaul_at_freebsd.org (Bill Paul)
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Ok everyone, PAY ATTENTION! Drop whatevery your doing for the next
> > five minutes and READ THIS!!
> > 
	[ ... ]
> 
> Well, that's what you get for having a name that's made up of two first
> names.  :-)
> 
> Seriously, where I work (the U.S. Postal Service), people with names
> like yours cause no end of confusion and grief, particularly when it
> comes to the forwarding of mail, as our oh-so-cleverly designed (read:
> brain-damaged) Central Forwarding System (CFS) uses the first four
> letters of the last name, along with the last three digits of the old
> address (leading zero-padded, if need be), to distinguish one forwarding
> order from another.  And then you have magazine and newspaper
> publishers, as well as other correspondents, who choose to invert the
> order of names, for reasons known only to them and their Higher Power,
> if they have one.  You can just imagine the uproarious, madcap fun that
> ensues.
> 
> Sorry, but I've no sympathy at all.  Bloody double first-namers. 
> You'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.  :-)
> 

	*Gawk*!!!!  I knew the US Postal "Service" was screwed up,
	but not this __this__ degree.  ...Well, (*sigh*).

	Seriously, I hereby propose that everyone, every human,
	and most mammals be designed by a string of DIGITS.
	Befor people laugh, just think about thr billions of
	advantages.

	gary 
		(aka  45689334177027483315780)



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