...reminds me of the dyslexic pimp who bought himself a warehouse
Chris
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> Amusing article in this weeks New Scientist in the Forum section.
> Unfortunately it's not on the web site.
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> .......the computer industry's latest idea based on "mining the data
> warehouse". Their term is not significant, beyond the splendidly mixed
> metaphor. "Data warehouse" is firm evidence that the computer industry is
> losing its grip on reality. (Did it have one?) It was no doubt coined by
> some cybernaut who thinks warehouse means stylish utilitarianism, like a
> Manhattan loft.
> To anyone in the real world, a warehouse is a gloomy shed run by
> a joker in
> a brown coat who, when asked to find anything within, inhales sharply
> through his teeth and says darkly: "If you'd come yesterday I might have
> been able to help you........"
>
> Hmmmmm. Sounds familiar.
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