On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Mark Tapley wrote:
  At 12:00 -0600 12/2/06, cctalk-request at
classiccmp.org wrote:
  Okay...  It's good to know you are back --
some of the most recent
 deliveries of dwarfs had some samples that were out-of-tolerance.
 <Grin> 
 :-) actually, the .sig is a slam at the International Astronomical Union for
 demoting Pluto from "planet" to "Dwarf planet" because it
"hasn't cleared its
 neighborhood". I'm working on a spacecraft headed for Pluto (New Horizons),
 so I'm peeved.
 --
 Mark Tapley, Dwarf Engineer
 (I haven't cleared my neighborhood) 
And here I thought the .sig was something to the effect of you hadn't yet
created a large enough "bang" to scare away any remaining neighborhood
residents, thus you were still considered a 'dwarf' engineer ;)
-Toth