From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 26 18:17:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA20019 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 18:17:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA19994 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 18:17:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id MAA19095; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 12:47:00 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971127124700.10853@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 12:47:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Philipp Cc: Andreas Klemm , de-bsd-chat@de.freebsd.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daemon stories ( german customs ) References: <19971126204207.18278@klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Peter Philipp on Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 09:15:59PM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 09:15:59PM -0500, Peter Philipp wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote: > >> He is "witnes of Jehova" ;-))) So he can't tale my offer. >> >> Well I tried to explan to him, that this is only a masquot of >> the developemen team and was only chosen because of daemon >> programs so a demon is the masqot. >> >> "Yes, he told me ... these demons work in the background and try >> to influence us to something bad ..." >> >> Umpf ;-)) I wished him a nice day, said to him, yes I also belive >> in something like "good" and went away ... >> >> Someone other with such "demon stories" ?! ;-) > > A few years back, when just starting to live out of my parents house, the > jehovia's liked coming by my house and talking to my roomate. He liked > talking to them and telling him his theories about god and such. > > One day they gave him an article about the number "666" and computers > because they heard that I am on the computer all day. After reading it, I > was balling of laughter. basically it was saying htat everything that has > a stamp on it is devilish and that computers all deal with numbers and > identification stamps and so on so they are the devils work. They were > warning of the end of the world when everyone was just assigned a number > and it's all the devils work...hence computers are bad. :) Hmmm. I don't think I've stopped them coming past here yet, though last time I pointed out that my trust in them was somewhat shaken when--as they said in 1967--the world didn't come to an end in 1975. If they show their faces again, I suppose I should try to sell them a copy of "The Complete FreeBSD". Greg