From owner-cvs-all Sat May 27 3:25:11 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE2937B88D; Sat, 27 May 2000 03:25:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12vdm4-000Nmf-0C; Sat, 27 May 2000 10:24:56 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA69359; Sat, 27 May 2000 11:31:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:30:27 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 May 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2000, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > Log: > > Add some fortunes, typically gleaned from FreeBSD mailing lists, remove > > some dups, fix some typos and formatting. > > I think this one was better off as it was: > > -For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two. > +For large values of one and small values of two, one equals two. > > The grammatical structure was deliberate and adds to the joke, IMO :-) This reminds me of an applied maths lecturer I had who used to say things like "Three is approximately infinity, so therefore...". -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message