From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 24 10:52:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sand4.global.net.uk (sand4.global.net.uk [194.126.80.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3ECA14D4C; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from pf2s11a06.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.219.243] helo=marder-1.) by sand4.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11JKk5-0003FP-00; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:52:17 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id SAA00407; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:45:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:45:05 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Andrew Boothman , chat@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: Introduction Message-ID: <19990824184505.D267@marder-1> References: <19990824183014.A267@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:47:09AM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:47:09AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 11:55:05PM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > > > > On 23-Aug-99 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > That's not a knife...THIS is a knife! > > > > > > No it's not. It's a spoon. > > > > > > Ahhhh, I see you've played Knifey Spoony before! > > > > > > > I think it was a quote from Crocodile Dundee > > Mine was, but Andrew's was from an (fairly ordinary) episode of the > simpsons which parodies the quote. > Ah right. I don't watch The Simpsons even though it is a bit of a cult thing over here. I find it, well, complete crap. Guess maybe I'm just too old to appreciate modern humour. > >From http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F13.html: > > The family decide to eat a little at a local pub. > > [Bart flicks a pocket knife open and closed repeatedly] > Man: You call that a knife? _This_ is a knife. > Bart: That's not a knife, that's a spoon. > Man: All right, all right, you win, heh. I see you've played > Knifey-Spooney before. > Homer: [to bartender] Hey! Give me one of those famous giant beers > I've heard so much about. > [bartender puts a huge beer in front of him] > Bartender: Something wrong, yank? > Homer: No. It's pretty big...I guess. > Marge: I'll just have a cup of coffee. > Bartender: Beer, it is. > Marge: No, I said "coffee". > Bartender: "Beer"? > Marge: [slowly] Coff-ee. > Bartender: Be-er? > Marge: C -- O -- > Bartender: B -- E -- > -- Selective hearing, "Bart vs. Australia" > > Kris > > -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message