Bad words

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:00 PM -0400 7/9/02, James A. Landau wrote:
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>Long ago, before the days of a computer in every pot and a chicken on every
>desk, I decided to razz a male coworker by programming the office computer to
>display a nude female whenever a certain option was selected, knowing he was
>by far the most common user of that option.  Unfortunately the first person
>to select that option was a female who hadn't used that option in weeks.
>With malice aforethought she kept silent until the next team meeting and then
>"casually" mentioned the "sexist software".  I satisfied her by offering to
>program a display of the Manikin-Pis ("The Little Boy", she called it) if she
>would provide me with a picture, but she never got around to it.
>
He's all over the internet.  And if you ever get to Belgium you too
may end up with not only photos and postcards but, in my case, a deck
of Manikin-Pis playing cards in effulgent off-pink.



L