From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 25 20:18:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2C537B403; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 20:18:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5550781707; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:48:22 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:48:22 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Darren Reed Cc: Robert Watson , mjacob@feral.com, FreeBSD Chat Subject: No sense of humour? (was: Upcoming OpenSSH vulnerability (fwd)) Message-ID: <20020626031822.GB58470@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200206251520.BAA06303@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200206251520.BAA06303@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to chat after removing personal comments] On Wednesday, 26 June 2002 at 1:20:59 +1000, Darren Reed wrote: > > Is there something about North America which seems to make people over > there humour impaired ? I've detected it on more than one occasion and > it always makes it harder to deal with such people - even face to face. Humour is very often national in character. I have detected some people in the USA who have something like humour, but they don't understand ours. And those Australians who have been exiled to the USA frequently start losing their mind^W^W^Wappreciating American humour. > Hmmm, maybe it is a Northern Hemisphere thing because there seems to > be a similar problem in some parts of Europe too! Well, again, the Europeans and the Americans frequently don't understand each others' humour. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message