Re: Bob needs a new catchphrase

From: JOG <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Oct 2006 17:11:04 -0800
Message-ID: <1162257064.480147.104440_at_k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


BobTheDataBaseBoy wrote:
> Pickie wrote:
> >
> > And so I concluded that "Bob needs a new catchphrase". We can all help
> > him out here. It should capture the apoplectic splenetic dyspeptic
> > querulousness that the name "Bob Badour" exemplifies. Moreover, it
> > should have a bit more lasting power than the old phrase. And Bob, if
> > you could just be the teensiest bit more judicious in your use of it,
> > your posts might not be so boring. Well, not so quickly boring, anyway.
>
> Now that Fabian Pascal, for reasons I know not and hope are not due to
> ill health, has gone; well Mr. Badour is welcome to take up the cudgel.
> I had thought the silliness against which he is latterly flailing
> had too gone away. Alas, it is not so.
>
> To quote Allen Holub (a coder): "Just say No to XML". I will add, in
> all its forms.

Yes, 'XML-lover' should definitely be added to bob's vernacular - surely insult enough all by itself. As for such things as xlink and xpath, 'a hamburger is still a hamburger even if you try and graft arms and legs onto it'. Received on Tue Oct 31 2006 - 02:11:04 CET

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