[LAU] A belated christmas song

[andy baxter]

david wrote:
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>>> What is this "point" you refer to? Since when did discussion list 
>>> emails have "points"? ;-)
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>> I have heard a rumour that there might have been a point once upon a 
>> time. I was asking merely out of historical curiosity. ;)
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> You sound like a historian who switched to marketing. Per Dilbert, 
> marketing people truly believe such rumors. Dilbert used one to reverse 
> the transformation of a marketing guy into a weasel.
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I went to a friend's house the other day and we played a game where we 
had to go round making up fantastical stories about our imaginary 
uncles. I thought I would see if people liked it here - the uncle thing 
takes a bit of the competitive sting out of it. But then I get carried 
away by it all anyway. Sorry. :( I guess 'real programmers' are a bit 
like imaginary uncles.

I never used to like marketing. Now I'm working for a small company 
doing electronics and computer stuff where the boss (who I like in other 
ways) keeps selling things that don't exist yet and may not even be 
physically possible to construct. This bugs me and I'm not sure what to 
do about it.