Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:31:45 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <20001108113145.H48888@lpt.ens.fr> 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 said on Nov 8, 2000 at 11:21:45: > 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. Incidentally, the God quotation would also be familiar to anyone who reads P G Wodehouse. But I don't think it's necessary to be familiar with the quote to get the joke :) R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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