On 5/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----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
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