Re: AppleScript e-mail encode/decode tool
Re: AppleScript e-mail encode/decode tool
- Subject: Re: AppleScript e-mail encode/decode tool
- From: Chris Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:25:31 -0800
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Nigel Garvey wrote:
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Paul Berkowitz wrote on Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:03:18 -0800:
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>On 2/19/01 4:48 PM, "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> email@hidden wrote on Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:22:03 -0500:
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>>> Which, for those reading through a list server that doesn't handle the
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>ISO
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>>> 8859-1 character set, reads like this, with accents suppressed.
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>>> set |resume| to "My Life"
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>>> set |perukenstuck| to "Shickele Number 7 1/4"
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>> Aha! If that's the opus number of the server software, that would explain
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>> everthing! 8-)
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>For those who get the reference, that was extremely clever of Nigel. I
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>wouldn't be surprised if the perukenstuckl were one of compositions for Horn
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>and Hardart. To be performed suitably attired.
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For those who *don't* get the reference, don't worry about it. It's one
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of those dumb things that only musicians (and perhaps a few of their most
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devoted friends) would find funny.
Oh, come on! P.D.Q. Bach is funny even if you aren't a professional musician.
OK, knowing classical music will let you get more of the jokes, but it's
accessible at a lot of different levels. (Sort of like old Warner Brothers
cartoons. There are a lot of subtle jokes in there that go right over your head
if you're eight, but if you're an adult, you get them. Doesn't make it any less
enjoyable for eight-year-olds, though.)
My recommendation to people who didn't get the reference: run, don't walk, and
get a P.D.Q. Bach album from an agreeable friend or associate, or a suitably
stocked library or record store. If the latter, look under "Bach, P.D.Q.,"
usually in the classical section, but sometimes he winds up in humor. "Grand
Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion" is one of my personal
favorites; "The Wurst of P.D.Q. Bach" will give you a good cross-section.
(Further explanation to let you know what you're in for: Concerto for Horn and
Hardart (S. 27) features a French horn and a hardart, which is an instrument of
P.D.Q.'s own invention. There's a drawing of it in the P.D.Q. Bach biography by
P. Schickele; it's sort of like a one-man-band rig grown to the size of a
piano. Naturally, the hardart is a musical joke in and of itself, as is pairing
it with the very elegant French horn, but the title is a joke, too: Horn and
Hardart was (is?) the name of a chain of restaurants in the Northeastern U.S.)
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering