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Re: Chicken Little

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On 2014-06-06, FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Even better...  I found the "Apple Death Knell" counter... an oldie, but 
> a goodie.
>
> http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/10/29.5.shtml
>
> "It happens every few weeks: Someone new jumps on the bandwagon loudly 
> proclaiming that Apple will soon be dead. It's been happening since the 
> early 1980s, and still Apple, and its doom sayers, keep chugging along. 
> We decided that it would be interesting to collect these stories, 
> prognostications, predictions, and premature eulogies in a sort of 
> testimonial of buffoonery, and we are calling it The Apple Death Knell 
> Counter.
> We shall keep a running total of the number of times that Apple has been 
> declared dead or dying, with links to each one (whenever possible), the 
> date it was published, and the person who so blithely set upon the path 
> of being utterly wrong. With luck, we'll eventually get back to the 
> primordial Death Knell, whose peals have rung on long past their normal 
> life spans."

It's kind of a shame they didn't keep it going after 2002, as I'm sure
there would be many, many more entries by now.

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Chicken Little Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-06-02 12:12 -0700
  Re: Chicken Little Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-02 19:21 +0000
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  Re: Chicken Little jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2014-06-03 08:14 +1200
    Re: Chicken Little Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2014-06-02 17:03 -0400
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      Re: Chicken Little jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2014-06-03 09:54 +1200
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          Re: Chicken Little jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2014-06-03 22:09 +1200
  Re: Chicken Little erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-06-02 16:56 -0500
  Re: Chicken Little Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-06-02 19:07 -0700
    Re: Chicken Little Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-06-02 19:35 -0700
      Re: Chicken Little Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-06-02 20:54 -0700
  Re: Chicken Little android <here@there.was> - 2014-06-03 08:41 +0200
  Re: Chicken Little Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@gmail.com> - 2014-06-06 06:24 +0200
    Re: Chicken Little Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-06-05 22:12 -0700
      Re: Chicken Little FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2014-06-06 04:07 -0400
        Re: Chicken Little Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-06 13:49 +0000
        Re: Chicken Little Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-06-06 08:28 -0700
      Re: Chicken Little FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2014-06-06 04:11 -0400
        Re: Chicken Little Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-06 13:52 +0000
          Re: Chicken Little nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-06-06 11:32 -0400
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      Re: Chicken Little Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-06 10:23 +0100
        Re: Chicken Little Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-06 13:53 +0000
          Re: Chicken Little George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-06 15:42 -0500
            Re: Chicken Little Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@gmail.com> - 2014-06-07 13:15 +0200
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          Re: Chicken Little Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@gmail.com> - 2014-06-07 13:15 +0200
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              Re: Chicken Little JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-06-08 14:13 -0400
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                Re: Chicken Little George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-08 20:47 -0500
                Re: Chicken Little "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-06-09 14:53 +1000
                Re: Chicken Little JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-06-09 13:12 -0400
                Re: Chicken Little George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-09 13:04 -0500
                Re: Chicken Little Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-10 09:34 +1200
                Re: Chicken Little "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2014-06-10 06:43 +1000
                Re: Chicken Little George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-08 20:45 -0500
      Re: Chicken Little Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2014-06-06 08:03 -0500
      Re: Chicken Little Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@gmail.com> - 2014-06-07 13:12 +0200

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