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Re: Bug in Perl man page



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On 11/25/06 23:02, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Ron Johnson said:
>> Does an official-looking top-of-the-man-page backronym that does not
>> indicate that it is a backronym *become* canonical, simply by reason
>> that it's at the top of the official man page?
> 
> Does a joke become truth just because people don't know it's a joke?

If you don't want perception to become accepted truth, don't make
your jokes look so real.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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