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Re: Pay for the hippo
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Danilo Turina <danilo dot turina at alcatel dot it>
- Cc: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:44:27 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Pay for the hippo
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Danilo Turina wrote:
> Just spit by fortune:
>
> "If you want to eat hippopatomus, you've got to pay the freight."
> -- attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory
>
> It could be used ("IYWTEHYVGTPTF") when someone complains about slowness or
> memory leaks or whatever.
"IYWTEHYGTPTF", actually, but I like the idea. Sort of like
"WCTYBTWHTKY", but longer and meaner. :-)
Igor
P.S. Sorry for the late response -- the message apparently bounced from my
mail server...
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