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Date:      Fri, 13 Jun 2003 07:00:32 -0400
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tridents (was Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers) 
Message-ID:  <3EE97690.19879.5468C4@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200306131054.h5DAsaHh008904@grimreaper.grondar.org>
References:  Your message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:15:41 PDT." <3EE97A1D.62E0D6DE@mindspring.com> 

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On 13 Jun 2003 at 11:54, Mark Murray wrote:

> Terry Lambert writes:
> > (a "thumbs up" meant "death" and a "thumbs down" meant "mercy";

This is the original meaning.

> Other way round.

This is what it has come to mean lately.

A google: thumbs up death roman gladiator
http://slate.msn.com/id/2080812/

Actually it appears historians are divided on which signal meant 
what.
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/



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