On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Larry Hall wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 07:41:42PM -0700, Martin Gainty wrote:
> >
> >>verify
> >>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/]
> >>      "native"="C:\\local\\cygwin"
> >
> >
> > What's the opposite of a gold star?  A raspberry?  A piece of coal?
>
>  From my primary school penmanship days, the opposite of a gold star
> was a black star.  Sounds ominous in cosmological terms (at least to me)
> though I think it was just supposed to be plain ugly to the recipient in
> those days.  Perhaps this is what you want.  Or you could go more
> contemporary and simply give those offenders a "time-out".  Alternatively,
> how about a swat on the nose?  Hm, I'm starting to like this one, provided
> we can find a good image to go with it. ;-)

How about a rotten tomato?  We could use a "tomato splat" image (e.g.,
<http://sniper.5u.com/images/Splat%20Red.jpg>, or have someone with
artistic talent draw one).
        Igor
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