[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <00AEB158.265BD65A at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 

> Bob has, at least, a decade, before he's standing right behind. ;)  

Right behind?  I'm familiar with "left behind", as in "no child left 
behind".  :-)

True story: Now that plagiarism is easily detected via software, 
students have moved to replacing words and phrases in the copied text 
via synonyms, using a thesaurus.  The process is called rogeting, after 
Roget's Thesaurus, one of the more popular ones.  The problem is, some 
synonyms work only in some contexts.  This is especially true of 
idiomatic phrases.  A real-life so-bad-it's-good example: A professor 
was quite surprised to find a phrase he had never seen before and at 
first couldn't make heads or tails (pun, as always, intended) of.  It 
turned out it was the rogeted version of the familiar phrase "left 
behind".  What did the student write?  Scroll down to read the answer.  
Make sure your mouth, bladder, and intestines are empty first.









































Drum roll, please...
























..."sinister buttocks".