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Old 01-01-2007, 09:44 PM
Tom Lake
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Re: Dangers of occular diabetes fom Vista

>>Vista is so full of totally unnecessary eye-candy and fat that any user is[color=blue][color=green]
>>in grave danger of developing ocular diabetes.[/color][/color]
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> WTF is "occular (sic) diabetes"? I have "diabetes mellitus". My
> second wife has "diabetes mellitus". My mother had "diabetes
> mellitus", and eventually died of complications of "diabetes
> mellitus". But I've never heard of "occular (sic) diabetes".[/color]

You're kidding, right? Just in case you're not, here's the definition:
Ocular Diabetes is a play on words. Having many visual features
is called eye candy. Too much eye candy gives your eyes Ocular
Diabetes the same way as too much real candy can give you
Type 2 Diabetes. It's a common phrase in the computer world.
As for joking about a serious disease, why not? My eight
great-grandparents, four grandparents, mother and father all
died before age thirty four. I'm now fifty one. I joke about
death just to spit in its eye (which I hope to give Ocular Diabetes!)

Tom Lake


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Old 01-01-2007, 09:44 PM