[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT/Sign-offs
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:25:28 -0700 (PDT)
lol
Cindy
--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Dan Beaver <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Dan Beaver <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT/Sign-offs
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 8:13 AM
> Here is one about a sign-off that had some interesting
> consequences.
>
> A co-worker of mine several years ago used to close his
> emails at work with
> TANSTAAFL. Shouldn't be anything wrong with it.
>
> One day he was contacted by the company security team.
> They explained that
> they were investigating him for giving out confidential
> company info. They
> wanted to know that the string TANSTAAFL meant.
>
> He laughed and explained that it is a string from a Robert
> Heinlein book
> which means "there ain't no such thing as a free
> lunch".
>
> We all got a very large laugh over the situation.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:34 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT/Sign-offs
>
>
> >
> > Hi Marilyn,
> >
> > I love your sign-off. I think a lot of us can relate
> to it!
> >
> > Yours for good coffee,
> >
> > Sue S.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marilyn Beasley"
> <mbeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 8:46 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT/Sign-offs
> >
> >
> > Good morning, all.
> >
> > First, to Shannon, please use your old sign-off one
> more time so I can
> > save it on my computer. I always loved that one. It
> was about being
> > only
> > one but doing what one can.
> >
> > Second, to the person (Amy?) who has the Shakespeare
> sign-off, when
> > you changed "now now" to "not
> now," I understood it a lot better. Not
> > altogether,
> > but better. And I thank you.
> >
> > Third, and last, if I knew how to make a sign-off be
> automatic, I'd
> > use this one.
> > It's a little Star Trekky, so it's from the
> future, but it would be an
> > ancient Klingon
> > saying, so I don't know when it will be first
> attributed to:
> >
> > Thanks so much,
> > Marilyn
> >
> > Death Before Dishonor
> > Nothing Before Coffee
> >
> >
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