Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 21:27:03 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: plush toys Message-ID: <35C13987.32097F9D@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980730073943.669J-100000@bytor.rush.net> <19980730101128.A26202@flarn.dyn.ml.org>
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Matthew Hunt wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 07:40:54AM -0400, Pat Lynch wrote:
>
> > -Pat (who can semi-read german, but falls WAY short =))
>
> I resorted to babelfish.altavista.digitial.com, which evidently
> can also semi-read German. I quote its translation:
>
> % BSD Daemon, animalanimal animal, 30 cm
>
> % The Maskottchen to BSD (generally represent by the versions
> % FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and BSDI) 30 cm highly, with
> % dreizack from wood and felt - also for child hands suitably
> % (E-CCharacters).
>
> % Price per unit: 49.00 DM
>
> I think I can figure out Maskottchen, but "dreizack from wood"
> has be a bit puzzled.
I'll take a stab at "stuffed with sawdust" because that is a common
filling to stuffed toys from "the continent." We don't use this
material in America anymore because we don't seem to have ANYTHING
that isn't plastic in our country anymore.
BTW, if you don't know what a babelfish is, you're seriously under-
educated, and will never understand my workstation name - zaphod.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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