At 11:00 AM 1/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Anachronisms
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Yeah, that's better, although it's difficult to get away from the negative connotation the word usually has. Including the word "classic" in a type name would impart far too high a status to some of this stuff, unless one is also free to twist the meaning around to mean "a classic example of how NOT to make a ....(fill in the blank with your favorite example) but that gets into sarcasm again, and can only lead to trouble ....... sorry Dale, it just oozes out of me.
Still searching for a word/phrase that says we're not Luddites or techno-phobes, we're not building shrines to these things (well, I'M not!), we're just happily ensconced in our chosen era.
From the ruins of Temple Tullio
Osborn