Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:30:27 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005271129390.73457-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005250000130.81590-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 25 May 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2000, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > Log: > > Add some fortunes, typically gleaned from FreeBSD mailing lists, remove > > some dups, fix some typos and formatting. > > I think this one was better off as it was: > > -For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two. > +For large values of one and small values of two, one equals two. > > The grammatical structure was deliberate and adds to the joke, IMO :-) This reminds me of an applied maths lecturer I had who used to say things like "Three is approximately infinity, so therefore...". -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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