Date: 08 Nov 2000 19:28:19 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> 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 Message-ID: <xzpwveeqpx8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of "08 Nov 2000 19:12:06 %2B0100" References: <200011081711.KAA19291@usr08.primenet.com> <xzp66lys58p.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> 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
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