Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On 08 Jun 2003 15:27:35 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 14:56, Miark wrote: I love Earl Grey, but I hate sea food. What class am I? Miark (running for cover) Wait, ain't you a yank? No. That's the lowest class possible, mate. (g) You and Conan O'Brien--masters of self-deprecating humor ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 16:02, Miark wrote: You and Conan O'Brien--masters of self-deprecating humor ;-) Miark Funny, that, ain't it? But at least I'm smarter than Conan - I moved outta the US (grin) -- Sun Jun 8 16:10:01 EST 2003 16:10:01 up 1 day, 2:01, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.08, 0.08 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Those who sweat in flames of hell, Leaden eared, some thought their bowels Here's the reason that they fell: Lispeth forth the sweetest vowels. While on earth they prayed in SAS, These they offered up in praise PL/1, or other crass, Thinking all this fetid haze Vulgar tongue. A rapsody sung. Some the lord did sorely tryJabber of the mindless horde Assembling all their pleas in hex. Sequel next did mock the lord Speech as crabbed as devil's crable Slothful sequel so enfangled Hex that marked on Tower Babel Its speaker's lips became entangled The highest rung. In his bung. Because in life they prayed so ill And offered god such swinish swill Now they sweat in flames of hell Sweat from lack of APL Sweat dung! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 00:56, Miark wrote: On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 01:09:35 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Please don't think that I spend much time thinking about or researching what happens in Pommieland, but this was irresistible !!! http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2135726,00.html (Save heaps of money on software so they can spend more money on Earl Grey and jellied eels, perchance?)(grin) The kind of people who drink Earl Grey generally don't eat jellied eels, and vice versa - it's a class thing. Sir Robin I love Earl Grey, but I hate sea food. What class am I? Miark (running for cover) the class that does not know good food when it is served??? the lower class, that orders a hamburger at a restaurant where the crabbers are bringing in fresh stone crab claws? (it's an everglades thing) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
- Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 01:09:35 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Please don't think that I spend much time thinking about or researching what happens in Pommieland, but this was irresistible !!! http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2135726,00.html (Save heaps of money on software so they can spend more money on Earl Grey and jellied eels, perchance?)(grin) The kind of people who drink Earl Grey generally don't eat jellied eels, and vice versa - it's a class thing. Sir Robin I love Earl Grey, but I hate sea food. What class am I? Miark (running for cover) Someone I can identify with. I love a strong tea but I can't stand fish, Fresh or Salt Water. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 06:48, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 00:56, Miark wrote: On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 01:09:35 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Please don't think that I spend much time thinking about or researching what happens in Pommieland, but this was irresistible !!! http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2135726,00.html (Save heaps of money on software so they can spend more money on Earl Grey and jellied eels, perchance?)(grin) The kind of people who drink Earl Grey generally don't eat jellied eels, and vice versa - it's a class thing. Sir Robin I love Earl Grey, but I hate sea food. What class am I? Miark (running for cover) the class that does not know good food when it is served??? the lower class, that orders a hamburger at a restaurant where the crabbers are bringing in fresh stone crab claws? (it's an everglades thing) or the class that puts sugar in cornbread __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 23:48, ed tharp wrote: the class that does not know good food when it is served??? the lower class, that orders a hamburger at a restaurant where the crabbers are bringing in fresh stone crab claws? (it's an everglades thing) (With Gator-tail strips, turtle soup, cherry clams, Oysters from Pt. St. Joe, and definitely, DEFINITELY the mustard sauce for the claws...) -- Mon Jun 9 08:55:00 EST 2003 08:55:00 up 1 day, 18:46, 3 users, load average: 0.77, 0.30, 0.10 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Noncombatant: A dead Quaker. -- Ambrose Bierce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 01:23, James R. McKenzie wrote: Someone I can identify with. I love a strong tea but I can't stand fish, (Rude, sexist remark removed for the benefit of the female readers) -- Mon Jun 9 09:05:00 EST 2003 09:05:00 up 1 day, 18:56, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.10, 0.08 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * I put up my thumb... and it blotted out the planet Earth. -- Neil Armstrong Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 03:24, Aron Smith wrote: or the class that puts sugar in cornbread THAT IS A SIN. Molasses? Yes. Honey? Yes. Brown Cane sugar? Maybe. BUT BLOODY SUGAR? ARRGHH! That's like making bisquits and gravy for brekkie and using some kinda store bought gravy. YECH. SIN SIN SIN. -- Mon Jun 9 09:20:00 EST 2003 09:20:00 up 1 day, 19:11, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.06 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:09, Robin Turner wrote: The kind of people who drink Earl Grey generally don't eat jellied eels, and vice versa - it's a class thing. Sir Robin Well, then this is revised: The Earl Grey drinkers that love scones and jam and The Guiness drinkers that love jellied eels - is that more Class correct? -- Sun Jun 8 08:15:01 EST 2003 08:15:01 up 18:06, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.06 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * The vermine is a small black and white relative of the lemming, found in the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather than let go of it. -- Discworld wildlife (Terry Pratchett, Sourcery) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:09, Robin Turner wrote: The kind of people who drink Earl Grey generally don't eat jellied eels, and vice versa - it's a class thing. Sir Robin Well, then this is revised: The Earl Grey drinkers that love scones and jam and The Guiness drinkers that love jellied eels - is that more Class correct? Yep, that's pretty much it. Personally, I've never scene a jellied eel in my life, but that's not a class thing, it's that eels are a southern dish, as far as I can tell. Sir Robin -- A Perl script is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 01:09:35 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Please don't think that I spend much time thinking about or researching what happens in Pommieland, but this was irresistible !!! http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2135726,00.html (Save heaps of money on software so they can spend more money on Earl Grey and jellied eels, perchance?)(grin) The kind of people who drink Earl Grey generally don't eat jellied eels, and vice versa - it's a class thing. Sir Robin I love Earl Grey, but I hate sea food. What class am I? Miark (running for cover) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 10:38, Robin Turner wrote: Yep, that's pretty much it. Personally, I've never scene a jellied eel in my life, but that's not a class thing, it's that eels are a southern dish, as far as I can tell. Sir Robin But it should go without saying that you have, at least, SOME class, correct? (g) -- Sun Jun 8 15:00:01 EST 2003 15:00:01 up 1 day, 51 min, 3 users, load average: 0.20, 0.23, 0.11 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Real World, The, n.: 1. In programming, those institutions at which programming may be used in the same sentence as FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG, IBM, etc. 2. To programmers, the location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming. 3. A universe in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5. 4. The location of the status quo. 5. Anywhere outside a university. Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the real world. Used pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the real world is not unlike talking about a deceased person. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: UK councils dump Windows for Linux
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 14:56, Miark wrote: I love Earl Grey, but I hate sea food. What class am I? Miark (running for cover) Wait, ain't you a yank? That's the lowest class possible, mate. (g) -- Sun Jun 8 15:25:00 EST 2003 15:25:00 up 1 day, 1:16, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.17, 0.11 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * QOTD: What women and psychologists call `dropping your armor', we call baring your neck. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
