The human brain is pretty good at filling in details and justifying or explaining inconsistent things. The person who mentioned a Slashdot thread might not even

The human brain is pretty good at filling in details and justifying or explaining inconsistent things. The person who mentioned a Slashdot thread might not even have been lying. There might have been a thread which said "OS2 is old and dead" and another thread, the following day, which said "DB2 is the future of databases," and, in the heat of the moment, talking to someone you're trying to impress, the brain put the two together and delivered up an attempt to cope with a strange question.