Ooh, Speak & Spells. I never had one, but ever since I saw Sonic Boom do a whole show with re-programmed S&S's I've been vaguely wanty.

I'll take this, too.

And this (not to be egotistical) would look spectacular on me.

Let's pretend this would fit me: this needs to belong to me.

I know someone who could make a copy of that for you ...

Temptress!

Geeksters, are you familiar with...

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Unix conspiracy n.

According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from AT&T). This theory was lent a substantial impetus in 1984 by the paper referenced in the back door entry.

In this view, Unix was designed to be one of the first computer viruses (see virus) -- but a virus spread to computers indirectly by people and market forces, rather than directly through disks and networks. Adherents of this `Unix virus' theory like to cite the fact that the well-known quotation "Unix is snake oil" was uttered by DEC president Kenneth Olsen shortly before DEC began actively promoting its own family of Unix workstations. (Olsen now claims to have been misquoted.)

[If there was ever such a conspiracy, it got thoroughly out of the plotters' control after 1990. AT&T sold its Unix operation to Novell around the same time Linux and other free-Unix distributions were beginning to make noise. --ESR]

Teppy, while both of those dresses would, indeed, look lovely on you, I would have to steal the stripey one from you. You understand, don't you? I even have stockings that match it.

I want this: [link]

Not to actually wear, you understand. It'd never fit. But I want to have it where I can gloat over the fabric.

Steph, that first red dress would look fantastic on you.

Teppy, while both of those dresses would, indeed, look lovely on you, I would have to steal the stripey one from you. You understand, don't you? I even have stockings that match it.

I'll fight you for it. I'm not afraid of your hat pins and poison-holding rings....

Ooooh, I must save all the pictures of this so I can have Jay the Wonder Seamstress re-create it in my size.

And this just makes me giggle.