From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 30 17:53:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECC615565 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:53:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-15-14.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.15.14]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA23899; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:53:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA42075; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:53:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199903310153.TAA42075@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Terry Lambert Cc: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: http://www.peterzale.com/377.html In-reply-to: Message from Terry Lambert of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:56:44 GMT." <199903301856.LAA17612@usr06.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:53:31 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert writes: > > Probably it's more proper to say they "were an engineering battalion > in the Korean war". > > I picked the Korean war due to the reference to "VC Gunner"; I guess > "VC" could be a Vietnam reference, but I'm pretty sure the 76th din't > have any Viet Cong soldiers officially attached to them. But, but, but, the riddle says its a test of one's knowledge of *internet* history. Korean and Vietnam wars pre-dated the internet. "This 76th VC gunner had two kills enroute to a takeover." VC = VisiCalc? VC = Virtual Computer? is there an online game that might be refered to as VC? takeover? Corporate? VC == Venture Capital! Corporate Takeovers! Who would be the 76th venture capital takeover artist who would have picked up two extra on the way to close a deal? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message