BA> Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to BOB ACKLEY:

 BA>>> Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to FRANK SCHEIDT:

 BA>>>>>>> That does depend, does it not, on how one
defines 'defense of
 BA>>>>>>> this country?'
 FS>>>>> 
 TR>>>>>> We're about to be graced with yet another version of
 TR>>>>>> `depends on what the definition of the word
`is'.......is'.

 BK>>>>>> Where was that ever said?

 FS>>>>> Have you forgotten you hero ... uh ... er ... President
 FS>>>>> Wotzisname *already*?!!?

 BK>>>>  I do recall Clinton giving what is essentially the dictionary
 BK>>>>  definition of 'is'. Do you have a problem with the dictionary?

 BA>>> IIRC it was Bill Gates that commented "... it depends on
 BA>>> what the definition of 'is' is ..." while on the stand
 BA>>> testifying during M$'s antitrust suit.

 BK>>  I don't recall Gates ever testifying in that case. I thought it
 BK>>  was all subordinates. After all, you can't risk the big guy
 BK>>  going down for perjury, can you?

 BA> Actually, it might have been a videotaped deposition, I'm 
 BA> not sure. He was struggling with a question and trying to 
 BA> come up with a usable reason for what M$ had been doing.

 Was that trying to defend their perjury?

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... Why do we choose from two people for President and fifty for Miss America?
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