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Kevin Daly <[log in to unmask]>
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BP - His DNA is this long.
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Wed, 10 Jun 1998 19:59:25 -0400
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Odd that he doesn't fall into either category....
Of course, that's a sentence fragment.

Kevin "my handwriting is lousy too" Daly

>
> One friend of mine (the same one who was recently married in Philadelphia)
> is a longtime systems programmer and a brilliant writer of English prose.
> He has a simple rule of thumb: In general,
>
>    People who graduated from high school before 1975 can write.
>    People who graduated from high school after 1975 can't write.
>
> Quite possibly he picked that particular year since he himself graduated
> from high school *in* 1975.
>
> I don't exactly endorse this theory, but it does have some predictive
> power in my experience.
>
>                              Larry Kestenbaum
>

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