From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 23 12:40: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C415437B425 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0547.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.200.37] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17068i-000379-00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:39:49 -0700 Message-ID: <3CC5B867.99B73EF8@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:39:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen Cc: David Kelly , Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Turned off by FreeBSD daemons References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020423101142.02214ee0@nospam.lariat.org> <20020423115600.C73364@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20020424072924.A69537@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:56:00AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > = > [..] > = > > No telling how this would blow up if someone were to inform him that = his > > "devil" only counts on 8 fingers. > = > 8 fingers! Further proof of the evil one's involvement! The user agents on the InterJet were cartoon characters, with "Mickey Mouse" hands... that is, 8 fingers. NTT didn't like it because of the cultural ramifications of congenital defects and/or forcible removal of pinky fingers, in conservative Japanese circles (yes... Mickey Mouse and the BSD Daemon are not Satanic at all... they are members of the Yakuza... 8-) 8-)). The world is rife with these things; it's impossible to be politically correct and completely cross-cultural (ask "pig sweat cola", otherwise known as "coca-cola" with the "proper" ideograms for a phonetically similar pronunciation, or the ill-fated Arrete 1100 UNIX systems -- ask a French person what "arr=EAt", pronounced the same way, means). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message