Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:23:36 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20031112202336.GL60410@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <38583.1068668267@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200311122008.hACK8mWu013352@repoman.freebsd.org> <38583.1068668267@critter.freebsd.dk>
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--jho1yZJdad60DJr+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:17:47PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200311122008.hACK8mWu013352@repoman.freebsd.org>, Poul-Hennin= g Kamp > writes: > >phk 2003/11/12 12:08:48 PST > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > games/fortune/datfiles fortunes=20 > > Log: > > Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection. >=20 > Modern journalism seems to demand that any measurement or numeric > quantity gets translated into "something people can relate to" > before publication. >=20 > Typical examples are that volumes are measured in "swiming pools" > (sometimes qualified as "Olympic size"), area in football or baseball > fields, heights in multiple of some randomly chosen tourist attraction, > small angular sizes as how far away a randomly chosen small household > item looks that size ("A golfball on the moon"). >=20 > You get the idea. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/SciTech/clouds_krulwich030902.html Ceri --=20 --jho1yZJdad60DJr+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/spbIocfcwTS3JF8RAq1TAJoDPJqMpaALYyiZNnw7VoJJf+JdZwCeOOKM cWMkwloRlJSDuOPensrFhKA= =rj2q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jho1yZJdad60DJr+--
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