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If it quacks like a duck...
More Microsoft Secret Messages
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Date: Mon, 18 May 92 12:05:37 EDT
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9205181605.AA05440@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
H.R. "Bob" Perot?
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Date: Mon, 18 May 92 12:15:32 EDT
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9205181615.AA05790@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
No, we shouldn 't fire-bomb Gates' house---just pelt it with butter-pecan ice-cream.
Note that Windings is an anti-SubG font, as it doesn 't contain a royalty--
paying image of the Salesman. Any font, advertisement, graphic, or condom not
emblazened with the Head of the One True Dobbs is a sign that the producers
would rather see you dead, or would if they were smart enough.
---Death-Crazed Fanatical Nice Guys for ObO
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From: "Eric A. Haines" <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9205182127.AA04404@hemlock>
Subject: If it quacks like a duck...
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Date: Mon, 18 May 92 17:27:56 EDT
Man Strips, Quacks After Committee Denies His Orals
The Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL -- An upset graduate student was arrested after he stripped
off his clothes and quacked like a duck when his orals application
was denied.
"It was a first for us," Department spokesperson Fred Brooks said.
The unidentified almost 30-year-old man was seated naked in a
professor's office in the graphics department when police arrived
Thursday. Officials said he replied with duck quacks when questioned
by police.
After his arrest, police said he caused $1,000 damage to a police
vehicle by butting his head into a window frame and kicking a door.
Magistrate Gabe Quintanilla ordered the man held for psychiatric
evaluation.
Committee officials would not disclose why the man's orals were rejected.
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To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: More Microsoft Secret Messages
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Comments: Civilization is a momentary failure of entropy
Message-ID: <7H4ykB21w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 18 May 92 15:02:05 BST
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
I decided to see what other sinister secret messages were lurking in Windows
3.1's "WingDings" font.
If you type "IBM", you get a waving hand, a hand making an "OK" symbol, then
a bomb. Obviously a reference to OS/2.
If you type "GOD", you get a hand pointing to heaven, a white flag, and a
thumbs down symbol. Clearly Microsoft are a bunch of atheists.
If you type "MAC", you get a bomb, a V for victory sign, and a thumbs up.
Plainly inspired by the recent legal bombshell in the look-and-feel lawsuit.
If you type "UN", you get a crucifix followed by a skull and crossbones.
Obviously Microsoft knows something about the United Nations that we don't.
Another potentially interesting bit of information: In the beta-test
versions of Windows 3.1, three "dingbats" fonts were supplied -- Lucida
arrows, Lucida stars and Lucida icons. WingDings seems to have been formed
by condensing the three into one single font. It's interesting to note that
whereas Lucida icons had both black and white coloured hand symbols,
WingDings has only the white-skinned variety.
mathew
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