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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in, tlambert@primenet.com
Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet
Cc: bright@wintelcom.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, des@ofug.org,
	jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> writes:
>Terry Lambert said on Nov  8, 2000 at 17:11:32:
>> The basis of the joke required people to complete an _English_ phrase
>> in their mind to make the association.  I maintain that the joke is
>> anglocentric.
>
> But it seems to me that even the incompletely understood joke "God works in
> mysterious ways, but FreeBSD has man pages" (or whatever the exact words
> were) is funny.

English is not my native tongue, and I did complete the phrase's illogical
sequence in my mind with something like:

    - (The) God (that some people believe in) works in mysterious ways,

    - FreeBSD on the other hand (which is the god of others) has manpages (and
      nothing so mysterious about it.)

It sure made my afternoon a lot nicer to get a tremendous laugh out of such a
beautiful joke/pun.

The fact that our (overworked?) release-engineer-simulation perl script did
not get the joke at first might be caused by a very simple reason.  He's too
tired these days to have the strength to dig in his brains yet another time,
this time not to debug/test an entire release's but a littl' joke.

Let us all say *hurrah* for Jordan.

- giorgos


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