Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:19:58 -0700 (MST) From: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101191915480.14189-100000@inconnu.isu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010119111143.049ff8a0@localhost>
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Brett Glass wrote: >At 10:52 AM 1/19/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > >>Think "blanket party", as punishment for a members violation >>of the rules established by the controlling membership. > >I haven't encountered the term "blanket party" since I read >the book Don Quixote years ago. What is a good definition of It's an old .mil term: it means that when a platoon is tired of taking the punishment for one soldier's actions, the platoon eventually picks one night and has a half dozen people trap the victim under their blankets whille the rest of the platoon beats the tar out of said individual: see "full metal jacket" for a depiction of one. >it? (I'd assumed, from context, that it involved public >humiliation and/or suppression of an individual.) And what >rule (or rules) set by TPTB do you think I have violated? The unwritten rule of not pissing off people like me. >--Brett > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- <a mailto:galt@inconnu.isu.edu>Who is John Galt?</a> Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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