Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 00:52:04 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Your misleading, no, LYING message to me Message-ID: <991.946889524@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jan 2000 21:11:03 CST." <20000102211103.A27302@Denninger.Net>
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Dear friends, I know that many of you may feel slightly let-down by the fact that nothing truly significant seems to have happened during our transition to the year 2000, a good many button-clicks on www.cnn.com having gone for naught as the hour approached and receded, nothing following yet more nothing as we waited for calamities which never came. I was certainly expecting at least one big bomb to go off somewhere, if not an actual nuclear device, and I know many others had their money on some sort of significant terrorist attack on the western nations or, failing that, at least the mass-arrest and deportation of thousands of "shady characters" and some hasty amendments to the American constitution which allowed more expeditious handling of such people in the future. No such luck. Not even a plummeting Chinese airliner (with their minister for transportation on board) enlivened the headlines and it was all just so frightfully dull dull dull the entire time. Believe me, I commiserate with all of you. However, even so I must object to this rather flagrantly transparent attempt to cheer up (?) the doom-sayers by stage-mastering an "apocalyptic flame war" in the -current mailing list. A TRULY apocalyptic flame war, with people resigning their positions and switching to The HURD left and right, that might have actually been kind of interesting and gone, in a rather pathetic way, some ways towards redressing the balance for the disappointing lack of a [not]millennial world-wide conflagration. This, however, was just too camp to be believable and, as much as I have to thank Karl for trying, he just went a little bit TOO far in his attempt to spray spittle in a convincing fashion and the whole suspension of disbelief thing just collapsed for me, so in the end I really just couldn't find it as enlivening as the genuine article. I know Karl's heart was in the right place though and I appreciate the gesture. That's our Karl, always thinking of others. A big man with a big heart! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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