Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 08:38:05 -0400 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 & SGML/DocBook - Message-ID: <3785ED2D.F0FBC067@charm.net> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990709000400.2932L-100000@geeky1.ebtech.net>
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Paul Anderson wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Dutch Collins wrote: > > > > > [1] is it ok to say shagged in public if you are not in Great > > Britain? > > > I have the distinct feeling that it carries a much stronger connotation in > England than in the US, and the reason americans aren't immensely offended > by the Austin Powers movies is that many don't really understand the > slang(Austin Powers is, IMHO, a half-wit attempt at comedy that wound up > in traditional american style, completely wierd and moronic characters in > completely wierd and moronic situations - somewhat reminiscent of Pee Wee > Herman). IMHO, it is wisest to refrain from using the term. > Interesting. The kind of humor pee wee and austin powers use makes me wonder why some people think that kind of humor is funny. Anyway, the late news (local) had a segment on new titles for the powers movie when it is run in Europe. I have spent enough time on this subject. Back to WordPerfect 8. What I am going to do is run FreeBSD DocBook thru the windoze version and see what happens. Since I do not have enough disk at my ISP (BSDI) to run the SGML package. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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