Re: Moderated message...
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:23:39 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: The inspiration came from a Tolkien quote and a suggestion from another member on a Linux mailing list. This can not be the first time you have seen my signature Mikkel Sigs were coming in as white, I originally did that, to avoid them Only recently changed it around as journalctl has lots of -- ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Moderated message...
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:44:07 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Where do you get them! ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Moderated message...
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Frank Murphy wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:44:07 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Where do you get them! I doubt he knows. Methinks it predates the internet. Unless he is the author, it belongs in quotes even if he does not know the author. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu Iluvatar is the better part of Valar. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
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On 01/21/2014 02:20 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:44:07 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Where do you get them! ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com Dragons, or my signature? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Moderated message...
On 01/21/2014 10:43 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Frank Murphy wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:44:07 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Where do you get them! I doubt he knows. Methinks it predates the internet. Unless he is the author, it belongs in quotes even if he does not know the author. It was inspired by a line in one of the Fortune answers files, but it is not a direct quote of either the line in the fortune file or from the source of the entry. Therefore it should not be quoted. Not there is a quoter from Tolkien that reads: Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. There is also a version of my signature that reads: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! But I like my version better. I am trying to remember when I started using it - it has to be more then 5 years ago. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
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On 01/21/2014 02:22 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Do not meddle in the affairs of BOFHs, for they have the root password and don't need to be subtle. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Moderated message...
On 01/21/2014 04:27 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:49:00 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: Dragons, or my signature? Sig, ready made, or good writing skill. ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com The inspiration came from a Tolkien quote and a suggestion from another member on a Linux mailing list. This can not be the first time you have seen my signature Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Moderated message...
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On 01/21/2014 10:43 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Frank Murphy wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:44:07 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson mellert...@gmail.com wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Where do you get them! I doubt he knows. Methinks it predates the internet. Unless he is the author, it belongs in quotes even if he does not know the author. It was inspired by a line in one of the Fortune answers files, but it is not a direct quote of either the line in the fortune file or from the source of the entry. Therefore it should not be quoted. Not there is a quoter from Tolkien that reads: I am aware of the ultimate inspiration, also that the wizards were really one wizard. Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. There is also a version of my signature that reads: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! But I like my version better. I am trying to remember when I started using it - it has to be more then 5 years ago. Your change required less intellectual effort than a translation. Translations do require attribution. Absent the slightest indication that the saying was not entirely yours, anyone whose job is is to decide plagiarism cases would decide against you. That said, almost anything, e.g. derived from a line in a Fortune file, would be sufficient to defeat such a charge. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu Iluvatar is the better part of Valar. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
