Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 02:28:42 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <393005CA.4B1D48EB@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005271129390.73457-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson wrote: > > > The grammatical structure was deliberate and adds to the joke, IMO :-) > > This reminds me of an applied maths lecturer I had who used to say things > like "Three is approximately infinity, so therefore...". I'll never forget a lecturer who, when confronted by a desperate plea of an example with *numbers* (bah, why is he in exact sciences if he has no capacity for abstraction?! :), proceeded: "Ok. Let's suppose you have three numbers, x, y and z..." -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@another.bsdconspiracy.org "Sentience hurts." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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