Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:16:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tridents (was Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers) Message-ID: <3EEA06D7.BB8FE26C@mindspring.com> References: <20030613200439.F24605-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Narvi wrote: > I'm pretty sure that tridents were used as a weapon of war by > Minoans, and that there is sufficent evidence to back this up. Offensive, or defensive? Nun-chucks were originally intended to seperate grain from chaff. Now they are in the ninja movies, where all the ninjas politely engage the hero one at a time, instead of all at once and beating him senseles in under s minute. Perhaps the hero is protected by a single mutex, and the ninjas are afraid of overwriting each other's writes to his "hit point" countering after decrementing it... 8-). In any case, if I were a fisherman, being attacked by soldiers from the sea, and all I had was my fishing pole, I would likely leave some nasty welts before they got me. 8-) 8-). -- Terry
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