I've got to hand it to the Venetians, though. I can't tell you how
impressed I was with that city. Nowhere else in the world can you find a
flood area bringing in so much tourist gold. Any other city in that
condition would've been declared a disaster area and the Red Cross would've
been in there evacuating the residents.
I don't care what the travel folders say, this city was not planned to be
on water.
All you have to do is take one look at what's floating around in those
canals and you can see that the original city fathers goofed. Luckily for
them, somebody on their Chamber of Commerce got the bright idea of making a
tourist attraction out of a big sewage problem.
They even capitalized on their pigeon problem. Wait'll you see St. Mark's
Square in Venice.
-- Selma Diamond
On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.
There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale
is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright,
non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do
several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works
best, write it down and make that the standard....
