From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 8 10:28:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBB937B4CF; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:28:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA60089; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:28:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Terry Lambert Cc: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet References: <200011081711.KAA19291@usr08.primenet.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Nov 2000 19:28:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of "08 Nov 2000 19:12:06 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > I'm tempted to theorise that the phrase did not originate with the > book you quoted, but rather that its author used an expression his > readers were already familiar with. And I was right! Sorry, Terry, but you were once again caught with your foot deeply ensconced within your mouth. "Truly, O God of Israel, our Savior, you work in strange and mysterious ways." -- Isaiah 45:15 "God's ways are as hard to discern as the pathways of the wind, and as mysterious as a tiny baby being formed in a mother's womb." -- Ecclesiastes 11:5 DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message