From owner-cvs-all Sat May 27 10:30: 6 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2383337B944; Sat, 27 May 2000 10:29:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p16-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.17]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id CAA13099; Sun, 28 May 2000 02:29:42 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <393005CA.4B1D48EB@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 02:28:42 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Rabson Cc: Kris Kennaway , Tim Vanderhoek , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Rabson wrote: > > > 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...". I'll never forget a lecturer who, when confronted by a desperate plea of an example with *numbers* (bah, why is he in exact sciences if he has no capacity for abstraction?! :), proceeded: "Ok. Let's suppose you have three numbers, x, y and z..." -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@another.bsdconspiracy.org "Sentience hurts." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message