Posted by Gabriele Guenther on June 27, 1999 at 12:46:31:
I have been flamed by someone for being supposedly rude about engineers. Hmmm.... I thought it was us Germans who were
apparently famous for their lack of humour?
In the same email, the flamer asked if there were then to be
prizes for nicest & best reply. Hmmmm...... Why not?
OK, since I am an amateur photographer, I will make a 800*600
pixel screen background (as a .jpg) from one of my own photos,
of some nice German castle (as Vancian as I could get).
EVERYONE who answers to me re surveys gets this screen background.
Nicest & best reply gets special screen background, something
else either nature or likewise remotely Vancian.
I would also like to hear from all those who are women, like
myself, and are Vancomaniacs, and their own reasons why.
Every reply gets a screen background, give me a week to make it
nice and load it on some server somewhere....
P.S. I have also been asked my own occupation (re being unkind
to engineers). Hmmm. I do things with impeding proton flow
through ion canals in chloroplast cell-membranes. This is deeply
fascinating if you are a chloroplast, or if you are a proton
wanting to go places. Feel free to be creatively rude about this (difficult, with choroplasts, no?)