Saluting Walt Mossberg’s career

Re:Saluting Walt Mossberg’s career by icpmacdo on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @09:38PM (#14907201)

Mossberg and Jobs were pretty close friends in Job's later years it seems.

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Re:Saluting Walt Mossberg’s career by PhantomGremlin on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:00PM (#14907294)

Here's Walt Mossberg (nee Mosspuppet) interviewing Steve Jobs. Definitely NSFW. Tempus fugit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr4pPAn-m5g

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Re:Saluting Walt Mossberg’s career by cooper12 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:44AM (#14908198)

By the way, the male equivalent of "née" that you're looking for is "né".

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Re:Saluting Walt Mossberg’s career by PhantomGremlin on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:52AM (#14909746)

I didn't know there was a female/male distinction. In my defense, Wiktionary says: In the original French, the masculine form né should be used when the subject is masculine. In English, this distinction is not always followed.

But even ignoring gender I still kind of screwed it up. I was really going more for "a.k.a.".

And I'm quite sad that so many downvoted the Mosspuppet. I really loved that character. He really added some fun to the otherwise somewhat stuffy Walt Mossberg.

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Re:Saluting Walt Mossberg’s career by basseq on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:21AM (#14910757)

  And I'm quite sad that so many downvoted the Mosspuppet.

I bet most people thought you were coining a derogative term for Mossberg with the implication he was a puppet (mouthpiece) of Jobs/Apple. Not a literal puppet character. (I know I did.)

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