Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de:
> James Wetterau writes:
> > http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html. It seems like he's
>
> "The MIT guy then muttered that sometimes it takes a tough man to make
> a tender chicken, but the New Jersey guy didn't understand (I'm not
> sure I do either)."
>
> The MIT guy (silent-tristero) doesn't remember saying any such
> thing. Flag it as urban legend. But the rest of the conversation did
> happen. ...
The MIT guy is certainly not the brutal postmaster of the shadowy
WASTE. Now, on the other hand, on the silent-tristero list, Dan
Weinreb, *claiming to be the MIT guy* notes that he doesn't recall
saying that. (One must not be so credulous as to assume he really is
the MIT guy.) At any rate, since it lives on in only this one
document, it can't be an urban legend: it is perhaps one person's
(Richard Gabriel's) erroneous claim.
However, I always interpreted that desultory mark as a bit of lame
humor, being a paraphrase of Frank Perdue's advertising tag line about
his chickens.
Regards,
James
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