From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 4 13:24:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2481037B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:24:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net (smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E04343E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:24:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 11962 invoked by uid 50005); 4 Nov 2002 21:06:37 -0000 Received: from tms2@mail.ptd.net by smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net by uid 50002 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4231. spamassassin: 2.31. Clear:. Processed in 0.869298 secs); 04 Nov 2002 21:06:37 -0000 Received: from du211046.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([204.186.211.46]) (envelope-sender ) by smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Nov 2002 21:06:36 -0000 Message-ID: <3DC6E578.EE0B48D4@mail.ptd.net> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:24:08 -0500 From: "T.M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current marcketting name? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: > >> > >> > >> > >> (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