• Canonical OS/2 vs. Fanfic-derived OS/2

    From dilbert firestorm@21:1/5 to Hector Q. Buttplug on Mon Nov 23 01:23:03 2015
    On 11/16/2015 7:46 AM, Hector Q. Buttplug wrote:
    With the recent announcement of Arca Noae's Blue Lion project (https://www.arcanoae.com/blue-lion-go/), this is a good time to
    answer - for once and for all - one of the most pressing questions of
    our time:

    Should we use canonical (i.e., IBM) versions of OS/2, or can we also
    accept 'fanfic' versions, such as Blue Lion?

    If we accept Blue Lion and similar as canonical, we run the very real
    risk of irrepairably distorting the OS/2verse forever. What we were
    handed from the heavens by IBM on four sacred floppy disks is
    absolute; only subsequent versions - as passed to us by the deities of
    The Corporation - can modify that initial bestowed blessing.

    Blue Lion is simply blasphemy, and, by extension, heresy. It is
    spitting in the face of The Corporation, promoting defilement of the
    One True OS(/2). Blue Lion is fanfic: it takes its equivalents to
    settings and characters from a work so composed of beauty and awe that
    it actually induces gastric cramping on sight and defecates upon it
    openly.

    We all know that the first time that OS/2 is used on Pluto, it will be
    the version of OS/2 that is the *true* version. The *righteous*
    version. The version that is, was, and evermore shall be Operating
    System Slash Two, exalted be its name.

    Note that this does not imply interplanetary usage of OS/2: as we all
    know, Pluto is not a planet and therefore use of OS/2 on Pluto cannot,
    by definition, be considered interplanetary.

    Yours in The One True OS(/2), The OS for Me and You,

    - Hector Q. Buttplug.
    what are you talking about buttplug?

    --
    Dilbert Firestorm

    remove *byteme* to email me

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  • From Hector Q. Buttplug@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 16 05:46:16 2015
    With the recent announcement of Arca Noae's Blue Lion project (https://www.arcanoae.com/blue-lion-go/), this is a good time to answer -
    for once and for all - one of the most pressing questions of our time:

    Should we use canonical (i.e., IBM) versions of OS/2, or can we also
    accept 'fanfic' versions, such as Blue Lion?

    If we accept Blue Lion and similar as canonical, we run the very real risk
    of irrepairably distorting the OS/2verse forever. What we were handed
    from the heavens by IBM on four sacred floppy disks is absolute; only subsequent versions - as passed to us by the deities of The Corporation -
    can modify that initial bestowed blessing.

    Blue Lion is simply blasphemy, and, by extension, heresy. It is spitting
    in the face of The Corporation, promoting defilement of the One True
    OS(/2). Blue Lion is fanfic: it takes its equivalents to settings and characters from a work so composed of beauty and awe that it actually
    induces gastric cramping on sight and defecates upon it openly.

    We all know that the first time that OS/2 is used on Pluto, it will be the version of OS/2 that is the *true* version. The *righteous* version. The version that is, was, and evermore shall be Operating System Slash Two,
    exalted be its name.

    Note that this does not imply interplanetary usage of OS/2: as we all
    know, Pluto is not a planet and therefore use of OS/2 on Pluto cannot, by definition, be considered interplanetary.

    Yours in The One True OS(/2), The OS for Me and You,

    - Hector Q. Buttplug.

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  • From rosco_p@21:1/5 to Hector Q. Buttplug on Mon Feb 13 03:02:54 2017
    "Hector Q. Buttplug" <hectorqbuttplug@antiham.spam> wrote in news:alpine.OSX.2.20.1511160521440.713@frvmher.ybpny:

    ....What we were
    handed from the heavens by IBM on four sacred floppy disks is
    absolute; only subsequent versions - as passed to us by the deities of
    The Corporation - can modify that initial bestowed blessing.

    Haven't tuned into this ng in a while and just saw this. That was
    brilliant, and very funny!!

    Blue Lion is simply blasphemy, and, by extension, heresy. It is
    spitting in the face of The Corporation, promoting defilement of the
    One True OS(/2). Blue Lion is fanfic: it takes its equivalents to
    settings and characters from a work so composed of beauty and awe that
    it actually induces gastric cramping on sight and defecates upon it
    openly.

    LOL, 'the corporation'. I like that!

    We all know that the first time that OS/2 is used on Pluto, it will be
    the version of OS/2 that is the *true* version. The *righteous*
    version. The version that is, was, and evermore shall be Operating
    System Slash Two, exalted be its name.

    Note that this does not imply interplanetary usage of OS/2: as we all
    know, Pluto is not a planet and therefore use of OS/2 on Pluto cannot,
    by definition, be considered interplanetary.

    Yours in The One True OS(/2), The OS for Me and You,

    - Hector Q. Buttplug.

    I shall keep a record of your great message in a special file on my
    computer, for future nostalgic reference. Excellent work.

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  • From Hector Q. Buttplug@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 25 22:00:02 2018
    Following on from the 2015 announcement of Arca Noae's Blue Lion project (https://www.arcanoae.com/blue-lion-go/), this is a good time to answer
    - for once and for all - one of the most pressing questions of our time:

    Should we use canonical (i.e., IBM) versions of OS/2, or can we also
    accept 'fanfic' versions, such as Blue Lion?

    If we accept Blue Lion and similar as canonical, we run the very real
    risk of irrepairably distorting the OS/2verse forever. What we were
    handed from the heavens by IBM on four sacred floppy disks is absolute;
    only subsequent versions - as passed to us by the deities of The
    Corporation - can modify that initial bestowed blessing.

    Blue Lion is simply blasphemy, and, by extension, heresy. It is
    spitting in the face of The Corporation, promoting defilement of the
    One True OS(/2). Blue Lion is fanfic: it takes its equivalents to
    settings and characters from a work so composed of beauty and awe that
    it actually induces gastric cramping on sight and defecates upon it
    openly.

    We all know that the first time that OS/2 is used on Pluto, it will be
    the version of OS/2 that is the *true* version. The *righteous*
    version. The version that is, was, and evermore shall be Operating
    System Slash Two, exalted be its name.

    Note that this does not imply interplanetary usage of OS/2: as we all
    know, Pluto is not a planet and therefore use of OS/2 on Pluto cannot,
    by definition, be considered interplanetary.

    Yours in The One True OS(/2), The OS for Me and You,

    - Hector Q. Buttplug.

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