Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:39:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Turned off by FreeBSD daemons Message-ID: <3CC5B867.99B73EF8@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020423101142.02214ee0@nospam.lariat.org> <20020423115600.C73364@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20020424072924.A69537@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:56:00AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > = > [..] > = > > No telling how this would blow up if someone were to inform him that = his > > "devil" only counts on 8 fingers. > = > 8 fingers! Further proof of the evil one's involvement! The user agents on the InterJet were cartoon characters, with "Mickey Mouse" hands... that is, 8 fingers. NTT didn't like it because of the cultural ramifications of congenital defects and/or forcible removal of pinky fingers, in conservative Japanese circles (yes... Mickey Mouse and the BSD Daemon are not Satanic at all... they are members of the Yakuza... 8-) 8-)). The world is rife with these things; it's impossible to be politically correct and completely cross-cultural (ask "pig sweat cola", otherwise known as "coca-cola" with the "proper" ideograms for a phonetically similar pronunciation, or the ill-fated Arrete 1100 UNIX systems -- ask a French person what "arr=EAt", pronounced the same way, means). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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