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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:18:04 -0400
From:      "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ports problems -- FIXED
Message-ID:  <200208231718.04822.bts@babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <05b101c24ae6$f0b06220$0c01a8c0@den2>
References:  <200208231250.g7NCoJQ3073804@lurza.secnetix.de> <00d801c24ad9$683d1f30$11fd2fd8@ADMIN00> <05b101c24ae6$f0b06220$0c01a8c0@den2>

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On Friday 23 August 2002 04:52 pm, Juha Saarinen wrote:
| Scot W. Hetzel wrote:
| > Here's a start for the man page:
| >
| > SHOOT_FOOT(3)    FreeBSD Library Functions Manual     
| > SHOOT_FOOT(3)
| >
| > NAME
| >     shoot_foot - shooting foot operations
| > SYNOPSIS
| >     #include <sys/types.h>
| >
| >     void
| >     shoot_foot(int gun, int bullets);
| >
| > DESCRIPTION
| >     To shoot ones own foot, aim gun at foot and pull trigger.
| >
| > FreeBSD 9.x         September 20, 2050         FreeBSD 9.x
| >
| >
| > Couldn't resit with creating the Man page for shoot_foot.
|
| "Shooting yourself in the foot" doesn't actually refer to making a
| mistake. It's what soldiers did in the Great War, to escape the hell
| in the trenches. You don't usually die from a rifle bullet in the
| foot, but it certainly takes you out of service for a long while. It
| describes an act of desperation.

Are you British perchance?  Because at least around here (the southern 
USA), the connotation is Barney Fife and the implication is error by 
gross incompetence, either temporary or permanent.

(The incompetence may be temporary or permanent, I meant.)

-- 
Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . .   bts@babbleon.org (personal)

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