Memo to Oracle: Nothing is 'Unbreakable'

Memo to Oracle: Nothing is 'Unbreakable'
Tim Mullen, 2001-12-10

Larry Ellison is setting himself up for a nasty fall by marketing Oracle as hack-proof

...and "anal retentive" has a hyphen when used as an adjective. 2001-12-11
Matthew X. Economou <xenophon@irtnog.org> (5 replies)

...and 2001-12-13
Anonymous

...and 2001-12-14
Anonymous (2 replies)

I think your logic is flawed. The occurences cited by the author are, in fact, ironic. If he was working on cuisinart, and it started a fire, that would not be ironic (nor coincidental). The fact that it was a smoke (fire) detector is what makes it amusing (per M-W) and thus ironic. The smoke detector did the opposite (again an indication of irony per M-W) of what it was supposed to do - it started a fire, rather than prevented it. The same can be said for the other two, although a heart attack is hardly funny.

So I guess you were being a bit of a pedant!

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...and 2002-01-02
Earth Wolf

...and 2002-01-17
Anonymous

Read between the lines.... 2001-12-17
Focusin

...and 2001-12-18
Anonymous

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Anonymous (3 replies)

Memo to Oracle: Nothing is 'Unbreakable' 2001-12-13
Anonymous (2 replies)

Memo to Oracle: Nothing is 'Unbreakable' 2001-12-14
Anonymous

Memo to Oracle: Nothing is 'Unbreakable' 2002-01-02
Anonymous

Memo to Oracle: Nothing is 'Unbreakable' 2001-12-20
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Memo to Oracle: Nothing is 'Unbreakable' 2001-12-23
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Memo to Oracle: Nothing is 'Unbreakable' 2001-12-12
ninjan

Memo to Oracle: Nothing is 'Unbreakable' 2001-12-12
Anonymous