From owner-cvs-all Thu May 25 11:33:16 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from smople.thehub.com.au (smople.thehub.com.au [203.143.240.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F5BF37B66F; Thu, 25 May 2000 11:33:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mckay@thehub.com.au) Received: from dungeon.home (bne83.thehub.com.au [203.17.162.83]) by smople.thehub.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA96716; Fri, 26 May 2000 04:32:59 +1000 (EST) Received: from dungeon.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dungeon.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA02284; Fri, 26 May 2000 04:33:15 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from mckay@dungeon.home) Message-Id: <200005251833.EAA02284@dungeon.home> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 1999-10-15 To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: Kris Kennaway , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 May 2000 03:05:14 -0400." <20000525030514.A86566@mad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 04:33:15 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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