> -----Original Message----- > From: Xavier Neys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:23 AM > To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage > > Larry asked me not to top-post... > > Josh Saddler wrote: > > In fact, I'd say it's _udderly_ disturbing. > > > > . . . *vanishes* > > > > Anyway, yes, our mascot has been along for the ride longer > than most > > of us have been on the project. I'd like to see him stick around. > > > > Thomas Cort wrote: > >>> On Sat, 06 May 2006 21:22:56 -0700 > >>> Joshua Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> I've noticed a disturbing trend with the website > redesign. Larry is > >>>> disappearing from the site. > >>> > >>> That is utterly disturbing! I too enjoy Larry the cow, > and would like to keep him around and improve his visibility > on the site. I think he makes a nice mascot for Gentoo. > >>> > >>> ~tcort > > The rumour has it that an ALF activist decided to free Larry > because it had to be as free as our code. > The truth is I found it alone in a pasture, it had lost its > appetite and felt very lonely. It begged of me to be allowed > back into Gentoo Land and asked me what it had done wrong to > be cast away like that. My friends, it was in tears, and I > joined it, I could not help it. > I decided to take it back home. > While we walked back, it mentioned it liked the text around > it very much, even though it can't read English very well. > Its language only has one vowel, the o, mostly used in pairs. > It wondered whether the Council should take care of this nice > aboot.xml page as well as the Social Contract and the Philosophy. > It also wondered why it had been given a male name because > Larry is a she. > I told her I didn't know the answer and she was not the only > case in Gentoo Land. > Larry is now resting in her stable and will be entertaining > you as soon as she has digested her first meal in more than a week. > >
That's really wonderful, Xavier! -achumakov -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
