Slogan: Getting Rich Overnight

[smarter_than_you]

I know this is an old thread already, but my 2c --

If that Brandon idiot hates it, it's a great slogan.  Use it and let
the doubters be damned.  Anyone who doesn't get the irony is not
worthy of understanding the sentiment.

-ds

Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1060398016.22259.python-list at python.org>...
> Dear friends.
> 
> During a conversation with good friends and newly acquired
> Pythonista, we were discussing Python, what it is in essence,
> and what it is giving to us.
> 
> The people were Dinu Gherman, Giorgio Giacomazzi,
> a promizing newcomer in the Python noosphere, and myself.
> 
> We were discussing how to advertize for Python, and Dinu
> spread some of the recent library enhancements, like
> 
> - email package
> - XML parsers
> - distutils
> - add lots of other great stuff, here.
> 
> Then, after a while of silence, Giorgio said something like
> """
> Well, right.
> But despite of the libraries, I was hit by pure Python,
> by the following, simply by using it interactively:
> 
> There are these lists, these tuples, and these dicts.
> They are immediately there, at my fingertips. And this is
> a feeling that I never had, before. Especially these dicts
> are incredible.
> 
> This was a feeling like 'getting rich overnight'.
> """
> 
> I loved this statement very much, and I have to say, this
> is essentially my feeling for myself, since many years now.
> I could imagine that this might be a candidate for next year's
> Python congress' slogan. "Python makes you rich, overnight".
> Not by money, in the first place, but by multiplying your
> own capabilities, immediately.
> 
> It needed the fresh experience of a newcomer to become aware
> of this, again.
> 
> The ambiguity is obvious. On first reading, it will attract
> many. On second reading, those who are thinking "ahh, ohh, yes,
> not I understand" will remain. But that's ok for a good slogan!
> 
> got rich overnight by Python!
> 
> being rich since 1800 nights now - sincerely -- chris