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Message-ID: <1ftknja.1lwad151kxecibN%spog@jwgh.org> Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology Subject: Re: Attention Doctroid Holmes and Sean Smith! Nyeah! Nyeah! From: "Jacob W. Haller" <spog at jwgh.org> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:30:34 -0400
Kevin S. Wilson <rescyou at spro.net> wrote:
HAH! You don't think anyone actually starts out as a tech writer, do you? My M.A. is in the writing of fiction.
I think that sort of writing would be a better qualification than other sorts of writing. (You know what this means? This means ...
[THE DANCING BEARS OF STANDARD COMEDIC TROPES MARCH IN, PERFORM SOMERSAULTS, MAKE A DANCING BEAR PYRAMID, AND COMMIT RITUAL SUICIDE.]
... it's time for another FUNNY LIST!
[FIREWORKS go off, with the sparks spelling out "GIVE IT A REST ALREADY!"]
Anyway.)
Where was I? Oh, yeah, documentation written in different styles.
"Sources in the software engineering department indicated that selecting the 'Clear History' option from the 'Special' menu would prevent the loved ones of users from discovering that they had been viewing illegal child pornography, but this remains unconfirmed at press time."
"When cent'ring text's your innermost desire / Make sure the 'Format' toolbar's on the screen. / Select the text you need to justify, or / else the seeked-for format won't be seen."
"This product sucks, but it's my parents' fault."
"This picture shows the original team of developers who worked on the product. On January 19, 2001, the project entered a turbulant phase, as the company was reorganized and half of the developers were fired. Tom K. Xibologist, one of the programmers at the time, wrote to his parents on January 22: ..."
[A BULLDOZER DRIVES IN AND MOVES THE BODIES OF THE DANCING BEARS OFFSTAGE. A JANITOR STARTS SWEEPING UP AFTER THE CARNAGE, NOTICES YOU, AND TELLS YOU TO GO AWAY ALREADY, AS HE HAS TO GET THE PLACE CLEANED UP BEFORE THE NEXT SHOW, AND YOU'RE NOT HELPING, DAMMIT.]
-jwgh
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