From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 25 9: 1:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E6337C725; Thu, 25 May 2000 09:01:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mail.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.247]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA93091; Thu, 25 May 2000 09:01:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Message-ID: <392D4E1C.809DA18E@owp.csus.edu> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:00:28 -0700 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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