From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 10:28:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A48D37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:28:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-217.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF2043FA3 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:28:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h5DHSFOg002991; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:28:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EEA09AF.7060501@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:28:15 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert References: <20030613200439.F24605-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> <3EEA06D7.BB8FE26C@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3EEA06D7.BB8FE26C@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tridents (was Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:28:17 -0000 Terry Lambert wrote: > Narvi wrote: > >>I'm pretty sure that tridents were used as a weapon of war by >>Minoans, and that there is sufficent evidence to back this up. > > Offensive, or defensive? Nun-chucks were originally intended to > seperate grain from chaff. I thought chucks were part of the horse's bit? My understanding is that during certain periods, normal weapons were outlawed in the orient (for the general public, anyway) so they were disguised as ordinary things (i.e. horse's bit) > Now they are in the ninja movies, > where all the ninjas politely engage the hero one at a time, > instead of all at once and beating him senseles in under s > minute. Perhaps the hero is protected by a single mutex, and > the ninjas are afraid of overwriting each other's writes to his > "hit point" countering after decrementing it... 8-). Stop that. You can go to jail for humor that bad. > In any case, if I were a fisherman, being attacked by soldiers > from the sea, and all I had was my fishing pole, I would likely > leave some nasty welts before they got me. 8-) 8-). This is why I never pick fights with fishermen. Those barbed hooks give me the heebie-jeebies! -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com