Jim writes:
>Wirt writes after Ted ("Wirt Fan") Ashton:
>
>>> > Wny has Wirt not been on Jeopardy, winning fabulous cash and prizes,
>>>  > and hobnobbing with Alex (not the one from BSEPA) Trebek?
>>>  >
>>>
>>>  He was disqualified because there isn't anything he doesn't know and so
>he
>>>  would never have gotten off the show :-).  They couldn't afford to pay
>him
>>>  what he'd win.
>>
>>Let me say politely, this is where the silliness really begins to pile up.
>I
>>dread the day that Ted and I finally meet. He's going to be massively
>>disappointed.
>
>And let me add that, having met Wirt in real space, Ted will in no way be
>disappointed.

And as long as it's been declared International Wirt Week, I'll remind
everyone about one of Wirt's famously detailed posts, in this case
probably the best story about real-world engineering I've ever read. It's
at <http://www.optc.com/Webbot/Thread1735.html>.

-- Bruce


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