Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 02:30:22 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <20001108023022.T5112@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpk8aevk5i.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:21:45AM %2B0100 References: <200011080148.SAA02034@usr08.primenet.com> <xzpk8aevk5i.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> [001108 02:22] wrote: > Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes: > > It doesn't really translate or travel very well, since the > > "his wonders to perform" was truncated, and assumes that the > > reader is either well read, Christian, or a Charleton Heston > > fan. > > This is a very obfuscated way of saying "I think so little of you that > I don't think any of you will get this joke, but I, on the other hand, > being better educated than any of you, understand it." > > Get real. Nobody in Norway who's got enough brain cells to operate > FreeBSD will have any trouble understanding the joke. I'm not familiar with anything Terry brought up, but yet the quote made me laugh. *shrug* Maybe if I was under -release crunch mode like our release engineer I'd have a rough time finding humour in things right now. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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