moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (12/04/90)
I bought the latest version of SSSwitcher(c), the shareware tool for
swapping sound and background screens around randomly for each Mac session,
and am having some problems which I wanted to report to him. Anyone know if
he's on the net? I always prefer E-mail to Snail Mail, especially during the
holidays.
Thanks for any information you might have...
"The documentary-makers know darned good and well
that the viewers aren't going to remain glued to
their seats to watch divers paddling around in
waters infested by, for example, clams, so they
stick with sharks. Generally, their procedure is
to scatter bleeding fish pieces around their boat,
so as to infest the waters. I would estimate that
the primary food source of sharks today is
bleeding fish pieces scattered by people making
documentaries. Once the sharks arrive, they are
generally fairly listless. The general shark
attitude seems to be: `Oh, God, another
documentary.' So the divers have to somehow goad
them into attacking, under the guise of Scientific
Research. `We know very little about the effect
of electricity on sharks,' the narrator will say,
in a deeply scientific voice. `That is why Todd
is going to jab this Great White in the testicles
with a cattle prod.' The divers keep this kind of
thing up until the shark finally gets irritated
and snaps at them, and then they act as though
this was a totally unexpected and very dangerous
development, although clearly it is what they
wanted all along."
-- Dave Barry
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