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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know*
 they're going to mess it up...
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On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 00:06 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > You seem to grossly under-estimate the ability of the average idiot.
> 
> We don't have average idiots in /our/ civil service!

"What kind of idiots do you have working here?"
"The finest in New York!"

(gratuitous movie quote...)
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

When you speak to others for their own good it's advice;
when they speak to you for your own good it's interference.