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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,
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Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet
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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.


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