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Re: "The rest of the story" (WAS: another twist forinstructions)
Subject:Re: "The rest of the story" (WAS: another twist forinstructions) From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:11:34 -0600
And do you hold your sides laughing while tears stream down your cheeks? I could
think of all sorts of comic possibilities there!
Jo
Gilles CASSIN wrote:
> A French comic lady does a sketch about building a barbecue with directly
> machine translated instructions, and a tomato stained English version while she
> doesn't speaks English. It's Muriel Robin, though I don't think any on this
> list knows her...
> Gilles
> At 10:33 15/03/2001 -0600, Jo Francis Byrd wrote:
> >I've seriously considered offering to rewrite some of those awful instructions
> foisted off on us - for a suitable fee, of course!
> >
> >Jo Byrd
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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