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Date:      Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:52:49 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        cokane@cokane.org
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes
Message-ID:  <20060422085249.GA56357@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <346a80220604201837u264e0f4el30ffb8b97b640ed7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:37:39PM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote..
> On 4/19/06, Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:36:17PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote..
> > > Mark Linimon wrote:
> > > >On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:48:30PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > > >>>Are you absolutely sure that the corruption isn't intentional?  Note
> > > >>>that the only non-printable characters are \a; it seems to me that
> > the
> > > >>>point of this truncated entry is precisely to leave the reader
> > > >>>wondering what the punchline is and cursing the "line noise".
> > > >>I think the line noise should be replaced with something about Hitler.
> > > >
> > > >Godwin's Law invoked.  Film at 11.
> > >
> > > Can I claim to have invented a law also?
> >
> > Sure you can.  And maybe you should commit it to the fortune/datfiles to
> > preserve it for historical purposes?  :-P
> >
> > > Nate's law:
> > > 1. Each commit to fortune/datfiles generates at least 20 comments
> > > 2. People only commit to fortune/datfiles to keep their commit bit from
> > > expiring
> > > Conclusion: expiring commit bits cause the most discussion

Hmmm... infinite recursion in the fortune file... 8-)

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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