macaronic wordplay
    Doug Harris 
    cats22 at STNY.RR.COM
       
    Sun Dec 28 20:39:07 UTC 2008
    
    
  
Wilson wrote:
" . . . gibberish was itself the point that was supposed to make the
phrase a funny pun."
--
That and your buddy Mark (aka Sam'l C) must have been in mind
when whomever named the software tool known as 'TWAIN' --
which stands for 'Tool Without An Interesting Name'.
Delightful gibletish indeed!
dh
Prepared and sent with Chaos Software's Intellect mail client.
Intellect's contacts and appointments managers also are cool.
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