Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:00:28 -0700 From: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <392D4E1C.809DA18E@owp.csus.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005250100240.86872-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, 25 May 2000, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > > I think this one was better off as it was: > > > > > > -For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two. > > > +For large values of one and small values of two, one equals two. I always liked a variant on this, I think it went : Two plus two equals five, given sufficiently large values of two. > > > > Sure, if you want. I found that it took so long for me to parse the > > convoluted sentence structure that the punch line simply had no > > meaning anymore. But some people parse better than me. > > It reminds me of a line from _Endymion_ by Dan Simmons: > > "And if we had some ham, we could make a ham and cheese sandwich," said > Father Captain de Soya, "if we had any cheese." > > Kris -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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