Quoting Michael Loo to Ruth Hanschka on 02-08-19 06:16 <=-

Speaking of alcohol weirdness, Bonnie plays for Jayne
West's studio, and after a grueling afternoon of
following unfollowable sopranos, she came down to the
kitchen where I was fixing supper and poured herself a
generous Scotch. And then after that a generous double.
And after that another, whereupon she started getting
weepy and peculiar. Turns out that Jayne told her that
a former colleague of theirs, Sandy Sylvan, had died
while we were abroad, having recently hit a milestone
birthday. As Bonnie is facing such an event but an even
bigger one, she particularly felt the encroachments of time
and decided to get alarmingly drunk. The good part is that
she wobbled up to me some hours later to report that she
would be just as happy never to see another Scotch again.

Scotch is better in lesser quantities to just take the edge off... ;) Understandable for that sort of news to hit hard...

Seems to me that Michael was complaining about how m o n k e y was
getting changed to m x k e y on Doc's board. Don't think that he
ever figured out why.

Some coder wanted to write an SNL skit and had to settle for messing
up mxkeys?

It was a couple years ago, and I think it was
Sean or Shawn or Mark or Marc or someone like
that who came up with the most believable reason,
having to do with some program self-preserving
by replacing instances of m o nkey with m x key,
because the former has some meaning internal to
the workings of that program.

It was mark...

Try them -- they are really good, decadent even. There is also
something called m o n key bread with similar ingredients on a
larger scale. These are a more manageable serving size -- but
can be addictive.

Title: Mxkey Biscuit Rolls

I've had that before; it's a cinnamon sticky bread baked in a bundt
pan.

And if they didn't have a stupid name like that,
the x for on problem would not surface that often.

Indeed... ;)

ttyl neb

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