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  • I cowrote the troff MM macro package, and FORTRAN programmers were wimps compared to serious troffers.

    Real Programmers EliRabett 2010

  • Putz sum inna skreenr, worsh em inna troff, fleeng awai da rownd brown wivvur roks, den shayk da skreen sew u kin c wat u gotz leff.

    Ur daiz…dey is numbrd - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Climb back in your troff and wallow with your next o kin.

    Think Progress » Barbara Bush: 2005

  • If you follow that link you realize that the software development, website maintenance, and documentation are all performed by volunteers the latter using a Wiki, one of the best tools for documentation since troff.

    Firedoglake » Take A Bow 2006

  • Yeah Blister, and I could do everything on vi that I use Word for, and troff handled formatting just fine, and all with a PDP-11/70 running BSD4.3–probably with less memory than I have in my phone–and an ADM-31 terminal.

    Firedoglake » Lotus 1-2-3 and the Politics of 1992 2006

  • They yanked us up to the top of that troff and then turned us loose, and I jist felt as though the whole earth had run off and left us.

    Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories" 1903

  • We went down that troff lickety split, and a woman what wuz settin 'alongside of me, got skeered and grabbed me round the neck; and I sed, you let go of me you brazen female critter.

    Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories" 1903

  • It looked like a big hoss troff stood on end, one end in a duck pond and tother end up in the air, and they would haul a boat up to the top and all git in and then cum scootin 'down the hoss troff into the pond.

    Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories" 1903

  • They yanked us up to the top of that troff and then turned us loose, and I jist felt as though the whole earth had run off and left us.

    Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories Cal Stewart 1887

  • It looked like a big hoss troff stood on end, one end in a duck pond and tother end up in the air, and they would haul a boat up to the top and all git in and then cum scootin 'down the hoss troff into the pond.

    Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories Cal Stewart 1887

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