Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:39:01 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <v04220808b62f6985751b@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <200011081735.KAA19984@usr08.primenet.com> References: <200011081735.KAA19984@usr08.primenet.com>
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At 5:35 PM +0000 2000/11/8, Terry Lambert wrote: > I disagree; without the implied "his wonders to perform", it's > just a set of unrelated sentences. The only thing that makes > such things funny is cognitive dissonance. Without the implied > end to the sentence, it could as easily be saying that FreeBSD's > man pages are inpenetrable. It's split infinitive on the order of > "You can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor" or "You can't > look too long at a nuclear cloud". Professor, methinks thou doth protest too much. ;-) Seriously, I think you're *way* over-reacting, and reading *way* too much into this. I believe I got the joke as it was originally intended, and frankly the very first time I ever heard (or saw) the "his wonders to perform" part was just a few moments ago when I read your previous e-mail message on this topic. IMO, if you over-analyze *any* joke, it's almost certain to fall apart and cease to be funny any more. You're certainly taking a lot of the fun out of this joke for me by continuing on this topic. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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