Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 04:33:15 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <200005251833.EAA02284@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 May 2000 03:05:14 -0400." <20000525030514.A86566@mad>
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Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:02:02AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > I think this one was better off as it was: > > > > -For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two. > > +For large values of one and small values of two, one equals two. > > Sure, if you want. I found that it took so long for me to parse the > convoluted sentence structure that the punch line simply had no > meaning anymore. But some people parse better than me. Yeah. The whole joke was in the ordering. Now it is clear, but dull. Fine for coding, but not for joking. :-) Stephen. PS Has anyone noticed that the fortune about the kid who could multiply big numbers (like 365365365365365365 ^ 2) has an error in the second last digit? Is that another anti-pedant joke? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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