Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:27:54 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Mike Avery <mavery@mail.otherwhen.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Pigs.... In.... Spaaaaaace.... (was Re: how to start to be a hacker?) Message-ID: <19990706002754.A11450@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199907051343.IAA09939@hostigos.otherwhen.com>; from Mike Avery on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 08:41:22AM -0500 References: <xzpr9mnv4pj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <199907051343.IAA09939@hostigos.otherwhen.com>
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On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 08:41:22AM -0500, a little birdie told me that Mike Avery remarked > On 5 Jul 99, at 11:14, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> writes: > > > Yes. I remember in my early teens fantasizing about marrying Gagarin's > > > youngest daughter. :-) [For the sake of the younger generation here: > > > Gagarin was the first man in space.] > > > > Come on, give the younger generation *some* credit. > > This is a rather enlightened forum, so perhaps his aside wasn't > necessary here. However, many people in this forum were born > after Apollo landed on the moon. For them, that is ancient history. C'mon, I was born almost a decade after the moon landing! :P I never considered any of this [various early space programs] to be 'ancient history'. Of course, perhaps I'm atypical in my sense of historical scale (how many people consider the 20's 'ancient history'? the 1700's?). If my mind were in better shape at this moment, I'd name the first dog in space, too! Starts with a 'L', ISTR... -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller MF4839 http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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