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Re: What would you call an interesting day...?

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:42:49 -0000
Message-ID: <402c9c1a$0$10334$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>


"Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message news:1e8276d6.0402121213.5265c933_at_posting.google.com...
> vslabs_at_onwe.co.za (Billy Verreynne) wrote in message
news:<1a75df45.0402112259.408ad782_at_posting.google.com>...
> > It likely depends on your definition of "interesting".
> >
> > There is an old Chinese curse that goes something like "may you lead
> > an interesting life". Which rings true at times.
> >
> >
> > A Description of The Interesting Times
> > in The Life of an Oracle DBA
> > (feel free to add to list)
>
> If I remember corectly the curse is: .May you live in interesting
> times".

Indeed, and it apparently dates from the US from the 1950s and was popularized by JFK. http://www.noblenet.org/reference/inter.htm

-- 
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
Received on Fri Feb 13 2004 - 03:42:49 CST

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