Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:24:08 -0500 From: "T.M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current marcketting name? Message-ID: <3DC6E578.EE0B48D4@mail.ptd.net> References: <XFMail.20021104154558.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > On 04-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > > Ollivier Robert wrote: > >> According to Kyle Martin: > >> > 5.Doh! with a new beastie mascot pic found at: > >> > >> If you want a mascot, take this then: > >> > >> <http://www.neverland.net/bellamy/>; > >> > >> (drawing made for BSDCon Europe although that one is wearing even less) > >> > >> (B. Bellamy is a well known french comic artist, drawing his models in > >> several magazines -- including Linux ones) > > > > Looks like a World War II B-52 bomber logo. Probably offensive > > to Nazis... > > B-29 or some such maybe. The first B-52's were built in the 50's. > AFAIK the US didn't have jet-powered bombers during WWII. I think > the first jet-powered fighters were used in the Korean War to > counter Mig's. (Putting on my history-channel watching hat.) The Germans had the Me-262 during the war, but fortunately misused it so that it didn't wipe the skies clear of Allied aircraft. The Americans and British had jets under development during the war, but they did not become operational until 1946 or thereabouts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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