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On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:45:53 -0500, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed
the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> Venerable?  Come on.  Fortran is venerable.  Cobol is venerable.  Old 
> farts use things that are venerable.  I don't want to be an old fart 
> (not that I have much say in the matter).
>
	For over a decade now I've described /myself/ as either being
"venerable moving on to revered" or "revered moving on to venerable"
-- 
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