Re: Have you always dreamed of become a high payed consultant?

["Hugh Candlin" <address@hidden>]

Howard Brazee <howard.brazee@cusys.edu> wrote in message asg33h$9o2$1@peabody.colorado.edu">news:asg33h$9o2$1@peabody.colorado.edu...
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> On 28-Nov-2002, "Hugh Candlin" <no@spam.com> wrote:
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> RE:  "The moving hand, having writ, moves on never to return."
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> > > Arrrghhhh! No, I simply can't stand to see one of my favourite pieces
> > > mis-quoted and claimed for Scotland...<G>
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> > > The quotation comes from "The Rubaiat of Omar Khyaam" and was written around
> > > 400 years ago (I think...it's late and I am too tired to check the
> > > reference) by an uneducated Arab tent maker  named Omar Khyaam (As far as I
> > > know, he never visited Scotland...<G>)
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> > You got the name of the piece wrong.
> > You got the name of the author wrong.
> > You got the date wrong by around 500 years.
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> So the original quote comes from around the year 1200 or 2100...

That is one hell of a mess you made. I most certainly did not write all of the above.
Also, you need a remedial course in basic arithmetic.  Or possibly logic.
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> Check out http://www.bartleby.com/41/623.html  (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of
> Naishapur (1048?-1122)).  I'm not sure I would quibble about spelling over that
> time

I know for a fact that I wouldn't quibble.  I am well aware of the many variants
of spelling, and even of the multiple names used by some of these literary giants.

> (why does my spell checker give only one spelling for Shakespeare, if the
> bard used a bunch of spellings?)

I'll give you a hint.  That's how the developer set it up.
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>                   LXXVI
> The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
> Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
>   Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
> Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
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> Could you point us to the quote from around the year 100

Here I haven't the foggiest notion of what you are going on about.
I did not write that, as you imply, and I never said squat about the year 100.