From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 21:50:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bruiser.netorbit.com (unknown [209.15.87.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0EA37B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:50:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from bruiser (unknown [192.168.70.51]) by bruiser.netorbit.com (Postfix) with SMTP id DBE9B9881; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:48:22 -0600 (CST) From: "R.Munden" To: "Chris Hill" , "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Tim McMillen" , Subject: RE: OT: Culture (Was: BSD toques - You must be Canadian, Eh?) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:28:43 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG See this page for the bumper sticker... http://www.freebsdmall.com/promotional/ "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Hill > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:39 PM > To: Mike Meyer > Cc: Tim McMillen; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: OT: Culture (Was: BSD toques - You must be Canadian, Eh?) > > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Tim McMillen types: > > > Yeah we just call those winter hats. > > [snip] > > > Winter? You mean that stuff they keep up in the mountains? No, that's > > snow. > > We didn't get much snow in Albany; never more than 48 inches on the > ground at one time. But man, it was COLD. We got regular two-week > periods of sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temperatures. > > > Does no one remember SCTV and Great White North? To bad. > > When that show was on the air, I worked at a TV station in upstate New > York (yes, we aired it). Overnight shift - f*cking cold! I quickly > learned what a toque was, and why it was my friend. Also learned the > value of parking my car in the garage with the remote trucks for an > overnight deicing. Yes, you can keep a sandwich warm inside the control > panel of a Grass Valley video production switcher. > > FWIW, when I was a child we called them "knit hats." No imagination, > these East Coast folks. Now that I live in Dixieland, I'd still buy one > if it had the Daemon on it. Better yet, a "powered by FreeBSD" sticker > for the car :^) > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > [1] Bus error netscape > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message