From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 21 13:40:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA25432 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 13:40:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA25424 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 13:40:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id IAA28060; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 08:09:49 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702212139.IAA28060@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Lumps on Terry's skull... In-Reply-To: <199702212034.NAA01944@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Feb 21, 97 01:34:37 pm" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 08:09:48 +1030 (CST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > > Watakshi wa otaku no Ataru Moroboshi. > > > > ;-). > > Oh, in case anyone was wondering, the second one translates as: > > "I am a fan of to be hit on the head with a falling star". > > Hee hee. And ignorant people say the Japanese language can't > support puns... Where I come from (*), translating 'otaku' to 'fan' doesn't really do it justice. That'd be like suggesting that 'geek' meant 'technophile'. > Terry Lambert (*) that community of non-Japanese speakers that spends stupid amounts of money on expensive translations of Japanese comics. But I can't fit any references to that in my .sig because there's no room and the advertising afforded by my hardware collection reference is more important 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[