On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:24:25 -0400, "Tom Lake" <tlake@twcny.rr.com>
wrote:
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>>>Vista is so full of totally unnecessary eye-candy and fat that any user is
>>>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.[/color]

How is your redefinition of diabetes mellitus a "play on words?" What
"play" are you making?

Now, "eye candy" is a play on words,but "occular diabetes" is not
playiing with anything. It is actaully a redefinition of diabetes
mellitus.

In the first place, diabetes mellitus is not caused by "eating too
much candy". That is a fairy tale used to scare children into not
eating a lot of candy.

The modern theory is that diabetes mellitus is caused by a virus,not
by eating too much candy.
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> 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.[/color]

Again, eating too much candy is not a cause of ANY type of diabetes.
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>It's a common phrase in the computer world.[/color]

As to whether "eye candy" or "occular diabetes" are common phrases
anywhere is in your own imagination. "Eye Candy" is NEVER used by
people who LIKE extra visual effects in their OS, it is used ONLY by
people who hate Microsoft. And I had never read the phrase "Occular
diabetes" in my entire life, until I read the OP's post.
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>As for joking about a serious disease, why not?[/color]

The effects diabetes mellitus can have on one who suffers from the
disease may seem funny to you, sir, but I assure you, they are not
funny to a man or woman who has gone blind as a result of blood sugar
out of control.
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>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!)[/color]

Spit in the eye of Death when you meet him, and you will show the
world something substantial.

Your jokes are not received well by those with diabetes mellitus.
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>Tom Lake
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