From: Michael Granger <ged@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T22:55:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Take a Fantasy Cruise with Me!

On Monday, Aug 4, 2003, at 22:44 America/Denver, Ben Giddings wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:38  AM, Phil Tomson wrote:
>> Yeah, but I notice that you couldn't imagine seeing the word 
>> 'girlfriend'
>> show up in a message to this list ;-)
>
> Aha!  It just did.  And besides, the regular expression wasn't just 
> "girlfriend" (which might show up) but  "with.*my girlfriends".  
> Plural, and written by someone on this list??  Not very likely... 
> unfortunately.  :)

"I'd like to _make a reservation_ for the Ruby Conference this year, 
but _with my girlfriends_ schedule, I don't think I'll be able to 
attend. Nonetheless, _thanks for inviting me; here's hoping 
regist_ration is up again this year!"

Never underestimate the power of a .* combined with someone with poor 
punctuation. =:)
--
Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
Rubymage, Believer, Architect
The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMUD.org/>