Subj : Re: [OT] Jerry Rice
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.lisp
From : rem642b
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 01:52 pm

> From: Pascal Bourguignon <s...@mouse-potato.com>
> Let's be a little cynic; he did something very useful: he captived the
> attention of a mob of millions who didn't think of coming to your
> house and rape and steal you, thus leaving you time and peace of
> spirit to do your job.

So that's all you can think of that he ever did useful, basically turn
children and teens and young adults into couch potatoes, so they'd get
too fat to commit crimes (which requiries running from police, jumping
fences, etc., difficult to do if you're 300 pounds overweight and can
barely even commute between the couch and the refrigerator or
bathroom)?

I would have been satisfied if he had a hobby on the side, which was
made public, specifically that he liked to write software, and even had
a Web site with some of his software for display, which might have
encouraged his fans to try it themselves, or that he enjoyed reading
science journals to learn some of the latest knowledge being
discovered, which might have encouraged his fans to go to the public
library and browse a few science journals themselves and maybe learn
something other than sports trivia. Just think of what could have
happened if he discovered Lisp and really liked it and started making
it known that Lisp is the best programming language in the world, and
10% of his fans tried Lisp themselves, and half of those liked it too,
and told their friends and siblings, half of which liked it too, and so
on and so on and so on.

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