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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 1998 20:07:16 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        mike@seidata.com, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Eek"
Message-ID:  <19981107200716.P499@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061944160.22343-100000@ns1.seidata.com>; from mike@seidata.com on Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 07:49:21PM -0500
References:  <xzp67csmp9u.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061944160.22343-100000@ns1.seidata.com>

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On Friday,  6 November 1998 at 19:49:21 -0500, mike@seidata.com wrote:
> On 6 Nov 1998, Dag-Erling C. [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:
>
>>> Great...  when will FreeBSD implement this?  ;-P
>>
>> Never, I hope. There is a proverb about hammers and nails which has
>> often been invoked for Perl; it is particularly pertinent to this
>> situation.
>
> Ahh, inflection is lost in the cyber-translation yet again.  The
> ';-P' implies, 'tongue in cheek'.  ;)

And I thought it meant hanging down over your chin.

Greg
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