Re: The Help Menu

["Dan Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

>I asked my folks on the phone tonight, what they would think if they saw a
>menu on a computer screen labelled "Prog". Here's about how the
>conversation went:
>
>"Frog?" - Mom
>
>"No.. Prog. P-r-o-g." - Me
>
>"Oh, Prog.. I dont know." - Mom
>
>"Prog?" - Dad
>
>"Yeah" - Me
>
>(silence..)
>
>"On a computer screen?" - Dad
>
>"Yeah. A menu option named Prog." - Me
>
>"Sounds like that crap we have to deal with at work. Nobody can make a
>damn bit of sense out of any of it." - Dad


Tom's given up :-)  Still, I'd accuse you of making fun of him if, damnit, I
didn't have that kind of HILARIOUS research myself.  "A city?"

Who was it who was saying the importance of research?  Man, that dude was
*WAY* in the right.  Even *I* didn't think Prog was that unknown, I just
thought it was ugly and a bad example...