atw: Re: Dearie me!

Hi Hedley,

I enjoyed your comments and your chuckle at Geoffrey's expense but can you
please clarify something for me. Was it Naomi's comment about a pissing
contest you considered misandrist? For myself, I didn't consider it any more
misandrist than a comment about how women spend lots of money shopping would
be considered misogynist. In fact, I laughed at her comment too. 

Let's not get carried away shall we, it's all about a little chuckle at the
expense of the other sex.

Regards
Michelle


-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hedley Finger
Sent: Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:29 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Dearie me!

I have been a naughty boy haven't I!

And here I was thinking to give the techncial  writting fraterntiy a 
cheap chuckle at the expense of one of our senior practitioners, one 
especially known for his fastidious attention to detail.  Me, I type 
"and" for "adn" all the time; thank god for spell checkers.

At least Geoffrey will no longer be paying good money to Google to 
display an inadvertently customer-repelling ad, especially when a 
competitor is also displayed.  When I researched Google AdWords for a 
computer illiterate friend, you could rent rare words like "shrdlu"*  
for about 50c per month (pricing partly dependent on how many times it 
displays and how many click-throughs).  On the other hand, popular words 
like "naked", "sex", "technical" and "writer" cost a lot more to rent 
owing to demand, and a higher appearance fee and click-through fee.

Thanks to those respondents who took the Rorschach inkblot test to 
reveal their misandrist world view, to be hoped only temporary.

Let graciousness abound,
Hedley

* Hash letters inserted into an accidentally wrongly entered line by 
Linotype operators running a finger down the keyboard to alert the 
proof-reader to a mistake.  Once a character matrix was on the moulding 
bar you couldn't "delete" it.  Also a Puck-like character in Superboy 
comics.

--

Hedley Finger

28 Regent Street   Camberwell VIC 3124   Australia
Tel. +61 3 9809 1229   Fax. (call phone first)
Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558
Email. "Hedley Finger" <hfinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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