Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 05:53:11 +0000 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: Personal patches Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.1.20040102054424.0426d848@imap.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040102053610.GP78263@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200401020525.i025PM2W004726@dungeon.home> <20040102053610.GP78263@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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At 05:36 02/01/2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Friday, 2 January 2004 at 15:25:22 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > > I deleted everything by Rush Limbaugh. That guy just can't do humour. It > > doesn't work as satire, or even parody. It's just awful. > > Would anybody object if I commited this one? > >I think the answer would have to be "yes". Though I personally agree >with you about its usefulness, the whole thing about the potentially >offensive fortunes is, of course, that they might offend. Somebody >else might like them. I don't think that anybody should play censor >here. I don't think the problem here is that they are potentially offensive... the problem is that they're simply *not funny*. There's also the problem that the 35 quotes were intended to be read in sequence, so fortune(1) is a very lossy way of reading them. But maybe American humour is too subtle for this Oxonian to understand... Colin Percival
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