RE: COBOL is back!!!

["Christen, Duane J." <Duane.Christen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<Homer>
MMMMmmmmmmm sausage mountiannn
</Homer>

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LOL Kurt

Methinks 'who' is the object - n'est ce pas?

As in

"You are calling whom a toady?"

But to quote my son -

No no you see the rules of language are purely arbitrary stodgy ivory-tower crap we doesn't have to worried aboard because everytime history on you rebendible sausage mountain.

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From: "Kurt Anderson" <kjanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> If you're calling him on his grammar it's my understanding that 'who'
> and not 'whom' is appropriate in that sentence. 'Who' is correct
> because it is the subject and not the object of the sentence. Unless of
> course you were playing on the sentence's typo and felt that the
> reaction to the sentence should also include another error.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Kurt Anderson
> Application Developer
> Highsmith
>
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terrence Enger
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:15 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: COBOL is back!!!
>
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 08:48 -0800, James Lampert wrote:
> > Mike Cunningham wrote:
> > > Has anyone ever seen an analysis of the lines of RPG code running
> > > toady?
> >
> > Just exactly who are you calling a toady?
>
> Ahem, do you not mean ...
> Just exactly whom are you calling a toady?
>
> In light of Muphry's Law ,
> I'm going off now to look for my asbestos underwear.
>
> Cheers,
> Terry.
>
> > --
> > James H. H. Lampert
> > Touchtone Corporation
>
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