Re: Monty Python

} } Andrew Burt (aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu) wrote: } > In <43c9l0$mda@redstone.interpath.net> Mike Lemon writes: } } > >huizinga.peter@syncrude.com wrote: } } > >>Can you call yourself a computer geek } > >>and not watch Monthy Python ? } > >> } > >> } > >>(NEE! NEE! NEE!) } } > >Ummmm.....I believe this is spelled 'NIH'. 8-) } } > >NIH NIH NIH yourself. } } > According to the script, it's "Ni!". } } [snip] } } Is it possible that he was referring in a punnish manner to the } common computer geek syndrome "NIH" (Not Invented Here) and that's } why it rated a smiley ? Close, I'm absolutely positive that he's actually referring to the National Institute of Health - where they experiment on monkeys - so its really a double or triple-entendre, it being also the sound that said monkeys make. cheers j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com _____________________________________________________________________________ Back up my hard drive? You mean these things can actually run in reverse? _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________