Re: Who was it?
- From: Neil Doane <caine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: technocracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:56:31 -0700
...and the 2000 Technocratic Award for "Best Tangent in a Rant vs. a
Ziff-Davis Author" goes to:
* Troy V. Barkmeier (barky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) on [07-19-00 12:58] did utter:
> This kind of idiocy has to be genetic. I'll bet if we looked back to the
> year 1443 in Mainz, Germany, we'd find Johannes Christian Dvorak, a
> failed monk, sitting in his hovel writing a monograph entitled "Was ist
> oben mit dieser beweglichen Artsache?", bemoaning the fact that
> innovation in the metalworking and leather-punching industries was at an
> all-time low now that movable type was the latest fad among artisans. And
> then he almost certainly brought his masterpiece down the street for his
> buddy Gutenberg to print several copies, and sold them on the street for
> a pfennig each so that he could buy enough beer and pretzels to keep
> himself alive for another week.
Neil
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