From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 23 16:54:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78CAD37B41A for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gte.net ([4.34.145.186]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020423235352.KXDJ22619.out011.verizon.net@gte.net>; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:53:52 -0500 Received: (from res03db2@localhost) by gte.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA09132; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:54:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from res03db2@gte.net) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:54:45 -0700 From: Robert Clark To: Terry Lambert Cc: Jonathan Chen , David Kelly , Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Turned off by FreeBSD daemons Message-ID: <20020423165445.D41726@darkstar.gte.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020423101142.02214ee0@nospam.lariat.org> <20020423115600.C73364@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20020424072924.A69537@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <3CC5B867.99B73EF8@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3CC5B867.99B73EF8@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:39:19PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The Commodore Vic 20 was not popular in some placed because of its name. The funniest was the Casio PDA where the name translated as "Hand Job". [RC] On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:39:19PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:56:00AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > > > > [..] > > > > > No telling how this would blow up if someone were to inform him that his > > > "devil" only counts on 8 fingers. > > > > 8 fingers! Further proof of the evil one's involvement! > > The user agents on the InterJet were cartoon characters, with > "Mickey Mouse" hands... that is, 8 fingers. > > NTT didn't like it because of the cultural ramifications of > congenital defects and/or forcible removal of pinky fingers, > in conservative Japanese circles (yes... Mickey Mouse and the > BSD Daemon are not Satanic at all... they are members of the > Yakuza... 8-) 8-)). > > The world is rife with these things; it's impossible to be > politically correct and completely cross-cultural (ask "pig > sweat cola", otherwise known as "coca-cola" with the "proper" > ideograms for a phonetically similar pronunciation, or the > ill-fated Arrete 1100 UNIX systems -- ask a French person what > "arręt", pronounced the same way, means). > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message