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Date:      Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:08:29 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Oh no!  They killed Beastie!
Message-ID:  <20010325170829.B48869@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010322043749.A724@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:37:49AM %2B0000
References:  <200103212243.f2LMhTb84823@ns1.unixathome.org> <Pine.LNX.4.32.0103211557210.14616-100000@inconnu.isu.edu> <200103220232.f2M2WKb87061@ns1.unixathome.org> <20010322043749.A724@hand.dotat.at>

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On Thursday, 22 March 2001 at  4:37:49 +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote:
>> On 21 Mar 2001, at 15:58, John Galt wrote:
>>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Dan Langille wrote:
>>>>
>>>> p.s. Hoof and Mouth is also known as Foot and Mouth....
>>>
>>> It wasn't commonly until this round of H&M.  Chalk it up to the illiteracy
>>> of the general media
>>
>> Actually, that's not true.  Perhaps in your area, but AFAIK, it's always
>> been termed F&T around here.
>
> "Hoof & Mouth" is an Americanism.

I was at the Singapore Linux Conference last week, and I was going to
present this report and ask for a minute of silence in respect.  As it
happened, I had some suggestions for modification, and what I finally
presented is at http://www.lemis.com/~grog/foot-in-mouth.html.  No
prizes for guessing who helped me.

Greg
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