Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:34:19 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <v04220807b62f6782fc29@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <200011081711.KAA19291@usr08.primenet.com> References: <200011081711.KAA19291@usr08.primenet.com>
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At 5:11 PM +0000 2000/11/8, Terry Lambert wrote: > Hardly. Jordan's American, and it's a predominantly English > joke, so him saying he didn't get it was pretty indicative > that it didn't travel well. I'm an American as well, and I got it the moment I saw the original message from DES. Just because he's an American doesn't necessarily mean that this is the reason he doesn't get it, or that other Americans won't get it. Contrariwise, you may be right that many Americans won't get it, but I must say that my own personal experience is that I think most of them probably will. In particular, I believe that a large majority of Americans are either relatively religious, or have friends or family that are relatively religious (an Uncle of mine is a preacher, and one of the best men at my wedding studied for a few years in Seminary and is now on his way to becoming a Deacon). I believe that most people who are relatively religious or have family or friends that are relatively religious are likely to get the joke -- they may not appreciate it, but they should get it. You are correct that the other group of people that are likely to get the joke are going to tend to be better educated and probably film buffs, but if you put all the better educated film buffs together with all the people that are relatively religious or have friends or family that are relatively religious, well that's probably a good percentage of the population of the US, and I would say that this would probably cover a considerably higher percentage of the FreeBSD membership. In other words, don't worry -- be happy. Besides, there's plenty of stuff already in the fortune database that is *far* more obtuse than something like this. If even just a small percentage of the people on this list get the joke and appreciate it, I think that's good enough reason to put it into the database. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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