Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:46:48 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20060417164648.GA71861@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <868xq4yxme.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <200604171214.k3HCEmhi046619@repoman.freebsd.org> <868xq4yxme.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:28:57PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Log:
> > Remove a corrupted fortune ending in line noise. Even googling did not
> > turn up a non-corrupted version, else I would have restored it.
> > (No, it's not the one that uses line noise intentionally.)
>=20
> Are you absolutely sure that the corruption isn't intentional? Note
> that the only non-printable characters are \a; it seems to me that the
> point of this truncated entry is precisely to leave the reader
> wondering what the punchline is and cursing the "line noise".
That's probably true, but it isn't actually funny, so can stay buried as
far as I'm concerned.
Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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