sdo (02/23/83)
O.K. folks. The recent questions about "CAR RT SORT" and the definition of posslq only caused a hundred or so replies to be posted on the net. Now I know that there are thousands of readers out there, so this must mean that most of you are not trying very hard, or are not very smart. Therefore, I'm going to ask a very simple question. It has puzzled me for a long time, and rather than do the laborious research, I'll let the masses answer it. The question is - Can anyone think of a word with the letter "e" in it? As is customary, please post replies to the net. And if you have a good answer, make sure you don't read ahead before replying. After all, just because someone else knows the answer, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't share the credit. In all fairness, please don't grep for the letter "e" in a dictionary file. Use your imagination. (As a sneaky trick I have included some "e" words in this very article. Try to find them first.) The purpose of all this is to get all the people who post the same replies to the net to become so occupied that the rest of us can unsubscribe to this newsgroup, and conduct a proper news network, and find other topics to complain about. If anyone thinks that this should be in net.flame, you are right, but I'm putting it here anyway. So there. Send gifts and money to: Scott Orshan Bell Labs Piscataway 201-981-3064 houxm!u1100a!sdo
rjs (02/23/83)
I will not submit any words containing "e"!
bj (02/23/83)
If we have people send in words which contain the letter "e", the net will get flooded with worthless messages. Since we all know plenty of words with the letter "e" already, let see some words which don't contain the letter "e". For those who are ambitious, generate a sentence which doesn't use the letter "e". My sentence is: Don't post stupid things. B.J. decvax!yale-comix!herbison-bj
dfz (02/23/83)
Aftr giving th issu many hours of carful thought, I admit I am unabl to think of any words containing th lttr "e". Dav Ziffr
jfw (02/24/83)
About: words containing 'e': I can't think of any such words at all!
berry (02/24/83)
#R:u1100a:-29300:zinfandel:8200024:000:214 zinfandel!berry Feb 23 14:58:00 1983 Let's see now, isn't UNIX* wonderful? grep e /usr/dict/words | inews .... Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (decvax!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900 ------------- *UNIX is a trademark of we-all-know-who
perelgut (02/25/83)
My contribution without words containing "e": Scott Orshan is an arrogant fool who annoys many by mis-using this forum. :-) --- Cannot sign my id. It contains "e"s --- P.S. Do grins count?
alain (03/07/83)
I saw long ago back in my country information about an author who put out a fifty thousand word book without using a particular fifth symbol. I will supply information about that by mail to anybody asking.
fjg (03/11/83)
B.J. at dec!vax-comix made the astounding discovery that if we all post articles with words containing the letter 'e' that "...the net will get flooded with worthless messages" B.J. -- THAT WAS THE AUTHOR'S POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Joe Glynn P.S. I bet you also told us what 'CAR RT SORT' meant.