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Author Re: Sunday Sermons
Rich Townsend

2005-08-23, 7:00 pm

owl wrote:
> David Frank wrote:
>
>
>
> 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.
>


It may interest readers to note that "owl" and "kia" both post messages
with near-identical headers to B. Voh. Based on the fact that all three
of them can't stop whining incessantly about the demise of CVF, it
seems almost certain that they're the same person.

cheers,

Rich
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