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microsoft.public.word.newusers: -----Original Message----- From: Steve Hudson Many many chortles The only bit that is missing from the story is when M$ FINALLY stole it (I posted a notice here natch) they didn't use the word Maggie anywhere. *******s. http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;211634 is their take on an "extended Maggie". Steve Hudson -----Original Message----- From: Secara, Maggie At the time the word was coined (I've never been a verb before) the real joke was that all too often poor Steve would have spent hours working out an elaborate scheme (usually involving VBA) to solve whatever problem had been posed, then I'd pipe up and say, oh gee, have you tried this! And it would be the answer. Not always of course, but often enough. Then there was the time I made Steve's day completely by coming up with a whole new problem, begging for help, to which he replied "have you tried a maggie" and of course, it fixed everything. It's not always the answer, true. But it IS magic. ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.") And it's a place to start, it's got a great beat, but you can't dance to it. :-) Try submitting this to The Jargon File - however they are not very ZvpebFbsg-friendly there ;-) Current maintainer is Eric Raymond - esr at thyrsus dot com -- Amedee Van Gasse using XanaNews 1.16.5.2 If it has an "X" in the name, it must be Linux? |
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