The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103698   Message #2117559
Posted By: Don Firth
02-Aug-07 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Spy Network in U.S.
Subject: RE: BS: Spy Network in U.S.
Penn Gillette, of the comedy team Penn and Teller, used to write a humor column in one of the computer magazines a few years back. In one article, he described how someone was cruising through the various available fonts and symbols that Word offers and noticed in the list of wingdings what he considered a significant and disturbing juxtaposition of a skull-and-crossbones and a Star of David—two separate wingdings. This person concluded that The Evil Minions at Microsoft had hidden an anti-Semitic message saying "Kill all Jews!"

Penn Gillette commented that "There are people in this world who could sift through the debris after an explosion in a Scrabble tile factory and find something to be offended at!"

Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.

Don Firth