Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:54:45 -0700 From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Turned off by FreeBSD daemons Message-ID: <20020423165445.D41726@darkstar.gte.net> In-Reply-To: <3CC5B867.99B73EF8@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:39:19PM -0700 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020423101142.02214ee0@nospam.lariat.org> <20020423115600.C73364@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20020424072924.A69537@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <3CC5B867.99B73EF8@mindspring.com>
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The Commodore Vic 20 was not popular in some placed because of its name. The funniest was the Casio PDA where the name translated as "Hand Job". [RC] On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:39:19PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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 > "arręt", pronounced the same way, means). > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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