Fortran - Re: Sunday Sermons

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Re: Sunday Sermons

owl

2005-08-23, 7:00 pm

David Frank wrote:
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> Well I would have liked to use the word "charlatan" but you had resorted to
> name-calling a few days prior and already used it...
> So I'm stuck with my "snake-oil salesman" synonym for you

Don't feel constrained by attributes that others may sling around so
freely - "charlatan" sounds fine to me, academic vapor puff, even
better. Do keep the snake-oil* salesman accolade reserved for Intel rep
- in fact, he'd be awarded an Olympic gold medal if they ever staged the
event.

* The expression is also applied metaphorically to any product with
exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality such as
bogus *VISUAL*ness.

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