Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:09:56 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: paul@originative.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: Request For Better Communications] Message-ID: <199905110809.SAA21517@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <73845.926409102@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 11, 1999 0:51:42 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > I'm sure I've seen fairings being used in commit messages recently, have we
> > adopted it as part of the FreeBSD jargon, what does it mean in that context?
>
> It's thrown out in discussion whenever a completely nonsensical
> argument in one's favor(?) is called for, I.E. at the end of a really
> long thread for which the outcome is no longer even cared about since
> everyone is now so sick of it or in rebuttal to another nonsensical
> argument ("Change the loader to look for /kernel.pl? What about fairings?").
Well for those of us who have bikes with fairings, it does mean something,
just not in the context used on FreeBSD lists. So I ask, what about the
fairing on the Hayabusa?!! 8-)
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