> I'm just suprised he hasn't said you were also an alias for Francesco
> Balena - as you recommend his books as much as Tim's.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Seth Rowe
> Sorry, no aliases for me :-(
> RobinS wrote:
>
>> Well, you're entitled to not believe me, but you're wrong.
>> I'm not trying to sell books for Mr. Patrick; I just find
>> his book one of the best I've seen for people moving to VB2005.
>> There's no financial gain in it for me, I'm just trying to
>> help people. It's called "being kind". You should try it
>> sometime.
>> Robin S.

> OK, I've decided to come clean. The truth is...I am actually Bill Gates.
> It had been a while since "The Road Ahead" came out, and sales just weren't
> doing that well anymore. So I decided to write Visual Basic books under a
> pseudonym. Actually, I created these "microsoft.public.dotnet" forums for
> the sole purpose of selling books under all of my names (yes, I am Francesco
> Balena; I'm also Paul Vick, and Bill Vaughn, and Charles Petzold).
>
> Another confession is that all of the so-called questions posted by readers
> on these forums are fabrications. I have a staff of about 10 who just post
> messages for me all day long, so that I, under my various newsgroup aliases,
> can post witty and complete answers--and sell books. But truthfully, the
> books just don't seem as important since Windows Vista came out. Does anyone
> want to buy a copy?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Steve Balmer (a.k.a., Steve Jobs)
>
>

> *Gasp!* *Shock!*
> I KNEW it!!!
> All along they called me crazy whenever I said "Tim Patrick is really
> Bill Gates" and no one would believe me! Well, we'll see who's
> laughing
> now!!!
>
> ;)
>

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>
> Tim Patrick wrote:
>> Thank you for your support all these years, Lord Zoltar. I have asked my
>> staff to disable all of the bugs in your copy of Windows, and permanently
>> turn off the blue-screen-of-death.
>>
>> -----
>> Tim Patrick or Larry Ellison
>>
>
> Thanks man!
> I'll send you our latest experimental iPod: It's so small it's actually
> invisible to the naked eye (which makes it easy to implant under the
> skin),  it can store 10^30 songs and has an AI agent that can instantly
> compose new songs with a full orchestra of instruments based on
> preferences you dictate to it (in natural-form language, it can
> understand over 200 languages!) using the built-in microphone.
>
> Lord Zoltar (aka Steve Jobs aka Yeti)
>

"Tim Patrick" <inva***@invalid.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Thank you for your support all these years, Lord Zoltar. I have asked my
> staff to disable all of the bugs in your copy of Windows, and permanently
> turn off the blue-screen-of-death.
>
> -----
> Tim Patrick or Larry Ellison
>
>> *Gasp!* *Shock!*
>> I KNEW it!!!
>> All along they called me crazy whenever I said "Tim Patrick is really
>> Bill Gates" and no one would believe me! Well, we'll see who's
>> laughing
>> now!!!
>>
>> ;)
>>
>
>