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to: Joe Barr
from: Thees Peereboom
date: 2003-02-19 11:17:26
subject: Re: OT: Canopus trivia question for old timers

From: Thees Peereboom 

Jeez, of all people - doesn't Petzold know he's violating the MSFT copyrights?

- Thees Peereboom

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:53:33 -0600, "Joe Barr"
 wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:22:18 +0000, Tony Williams wrote:
>
>> Joe Barr wrote:
>>> Who was the journalist who got a Windows logo tattoo back in the mid
>>> 90's?
>>>  I keep wanting to say Tom Henderson, but I would love to know for sure.
>>
>> Wasn't that Charles Petzold, the guy who wrote the Windows books?
>
>Bingo!  Thanks!
>
>Quoting from a message from Jaime Cruz on January 4, 1995:
>
>Hold it... I see the reason for that last one here on page
>95 in John Dvorak's "Inside Track" column:  "Charles
Petzold arrived at the
>Betty Boop Bar and showed off a tattoo he had on his right upper bicep.  It
>depicted the Microsoft Windows logo!"

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