catesta's post at AAJ

[maren]

Thanks for the SHRDLU story, Alan.

The Mad Magazine reference reminds me of travelling in Eastern Europe in my twenties and seeing signs for "Potrzebie" -- which reminds me that you called "r" a vowel, which I guess it kind of is in Poland and S(e)rbia -- remember the journalist Art Srb?

[Jim Alfredson]

p.s., the hero outwits ETAOIN SHRDLU by having it typeset every book on Buddhism. The story ends: "See, George, it believes what it sets. So I fed it a religion that convinced it of the utter futility of all effort and action and the desirability of nothingness...It doesn't care what happens to it and it doesn't even know we're here. It's archived Nirvana, and it's sitting there contemplating its cam stud."

That is funny stuff! Makes me want to read the book!