From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 27 14:14: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F25237B41E for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:13:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28127 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2001 22:14:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Nov 2001 22:14:09 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011127130158.A36971@citusc17.usc.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:13:53 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp 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 On 27-Nov-01 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:53:43AM -0800, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> phk 2001/11/27 08:53:43 PST >> >> Modified files: >> games/fortune/datfiles fortunes >> Log: >> This string of coincidences was too good to let pass. >> >> Obtained from: BBC World Service on 9410kHz >> >> Revision Changes Path >> 1.63 +22 -0 src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes > > But wait, there are more cosmical coincidences at work here! A quick > search of the web reveals the following claims (some are no doubt > apocryphal) You have way, way too much free time on your hands. Aren't there some advisories you could be putting out? :-P > This guy thinks that all these "concidences" are nothing really that > special at all: http://www.kilty.com/l_and_k.htm This was quite entertaining. > This guy thinks it's proof that Kennedy was the reincarnation of > Lincoln: http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen9.html This one makes a bunch of statements many of which are not coincidental at all (both sucessors were Vice-Presidents, gee, you think?) and others were debunked by the first one. The statements have no supporting material used to actually draw the conclusion at the end. > Kris -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message