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From: Neeum Zawan
Date: 16 Aug 2009 10:01:32
Message: <4a88113c$1@news.povray.org>
On 08/16/09 07:51, Daniel Bastos wrote:
>> I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
>
> I'm having the following idea right now. I could have a database of
> quotes, and while I write my article, I somehow mark some words, or
> just one, which I wish my signature to talk about; then a program
> selects a quote that mentions that word; my client somehow removes the
> mark. So you could have selected ``shape'' and hopefully something
> that could be related to the shape discussed here would be funny. :-)
>
> I think most of the time would be confusing and not funny, but that's
> okay.

	I got the random sig idea from the BBS days. They're called taglines, 
and any decent BBS messaging reader had that feature. I simply had it to 
select them randomly. However, some readers did more or less what you 
describe.

-- 
I'm addicted to placebos. I'd give them up, but it wouldn't make any 
difference. - Steven Wright


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