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Subject: Re: The FreeBSD trademark.
To: jmb@kryten.atinc.com (Jonathan M. Bresler)
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> 
> On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > > Why did the Bostonians toss 340 tea chests in the harbour in 1773 ?
> > > > They reacted to arbitrary rule from Britain.
> > > 
> > > No, newer revisionist history research has pointed out that the tea 
> > > was non-decaf...
> > 
> > Indeed.  And further perusal of the records shows that the settlers
> > had already drunk the brewed contents of the 410 OTHER tea chests that
> > were already on the dock.  Those suckers were WIRED and they damn well
> > wanted to throw SOMETHING into to the water, just to see it splash!
> > It's sad for the British but glad for history that they just happened
> > to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.. :-)
> 
> 	if the truth must be told--it was not tea that they had been 
> drinking.  it was sam adams boston lager.  cases and cases of the stuff.  
> drank teh city dry and still looking for more.  all they could find was 
> some tea that had gone off in the long sea journey.  so in fustration, 
> they threw the tea into the sea.
> 
> 
> Jonathan M. Bresler  jmb@kryten.atinc.com	| Analysis & Technology, Inc.  
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> 
>