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"Prostitutes Appeal to Pope"
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a small band of programmers could never hope to accomplish.
This was best shown to me this week by reader
Brian P. McLean, who points out that according to his
Microsoft Outlook 97 scheduling/datebook application,
Thanksgiving falls this year on Wednesday, November 26.
Thanksgiving has always fallen on Thursday before. Wednesday
may be an improvement. I don't know.
- Robert X. Cringely, from his "I, Cringely" column (November 7, 1997)
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