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Overheard in a hotel lobby:

June 29, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Overheard in a hotel lobby:

rm -r *. “Here’s what I want you to type. ‘are em’ … yes. The letter ‘r’ and the letter ‘m’, together. Now type a dash. Yes, like a hyphen. OK, and then another ‘r’. Yes rm space hyphen r.” From Jeff Veen.

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