From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 03:36:55 +0800
To: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>
Subject: [NOISE] Suscrive toasterpunks
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On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, David K. Merriman wrote:

> 
>         If cypherpunks made toasters...
>            Jim B and Black Unicorn would argue about whether toast should be
> buttered, and what the appropriate flavor of jam/jelly should be; TC May
> would point out that it wasn't really toast, but rather, sliced and
> slightly-burned bread; Perry would kvetch about the lack of crypto-relevance
> of toasters; and a few others would form a new listserver for toasterpunks.
> The service department would be flooded with calls from newbies, asking how
> to make toast.
> 
>         If Netscape made toasters...
>            They'd beta-test the toasters for months, then make one slot too
> wide and the other too narrow. It wouldn't be until a cook in a diner
> pointed out that the toast wasn't coming out right that they'd have their
> design reviewed by a 3rd-party Toaster Engineer.
> 
and during daylight savings time, you wouldn't be able to reload the 
toaster for an hour unless you set your toaster to standard time or 
created a timezone variable.

- r.w.