> Also, please -- PLEASE -- read the hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of
> posts about this in the ruby-talk archives.  I'm not optimistic about
> breaking the cycle; it seems we're doomed to have this thread repeated
> three or four times a year.  But, I don't know, maybe one of these
> years we can stop.

Here, take a "PWNT3HN00BS!" T-shirt. Brought to you by the Grumpy Jaded 
Gits Anonymous.

The best strategy is to take two painkillers, wait for the caffeine to 
wear off, and then start copy/pasting the explanations. 
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obviously a tad bit new, so you can either start making scary 
hand-motions in hopes he runs for the hills, or join the crowd in 
showing him The Light. I actually find that strangely soothing - gives 
me that fuzzy feeling all over when someone Gets It.

*wombles back to proselytizing*

David Vallner