From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jul 9 5:39: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C71F14E1C for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 05:38:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-115-032.charm.net [209.143.115.32]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA24351; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:38:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3785ED2D.F0FBC067@charm.net> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 08:38:05 -0400 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Anderson Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 & SGML/DocBook - References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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