Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Daniel B. wrote: > Hey, too bad there's not a universal offensiveness rating system > (multidimensional, maybe like the geek code?) LOL. You mean, the "eek code"? :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Shankar Unni
Cliff Hones wrote: De dah dah de dah dah de dah Sounds like the "world's filthiest limerick", which is apparently so potent that the bowdlerized version (further bowdlerized for spam filters :-) looks like De dah dah de dah dah de dah De dah dah de dah dah de dah De dah dah dah dah De dah da

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Daniel B.
William R. Knox wrote: ... If you don't like the fortunes, don't install them. Unfortunately, that argument (or admonition) doesn't quite hold water: * It requires recognizing that the fortune package is part of what you're installing. That doesn't happen if you select to install all of CygWi

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Cliff Hones wrote: > Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > >> A twit hit a free software mailing list. > >> On censoring fortune he did insist. > >> ``Can't have limericks about pussies and dicks!'' > >> A few clicks Googled him out a masochist! > > I don't think this is a limerick, though, w

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:37:57AM +, Cliff Hones wrote: > Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > >> A twit hit a free software mailing list. > >> On censoring fortune he did insist. > >> ``Can't have limericks about *** and *!'' > >> A few clicks Googled him out a masochist! > > I don't think this i

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-07 Thread Cliff Hones
Kaz Kylheku wrote: >> A twit hit a free software mailing list. >> On censoring fortune he did insist. >> ``Can't have limericks about pussies and dicks!'' >> A few clicks Googled him out a masochist! I don't think this is a limerick, though, which rather spoils the joke. A limerick has 5 lines w

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-06 Thread Kaz Kylheku
Sorry folks I just could not resist. A twit hit a free software mailing list. On censoring fortune he did insist. ``Can't have limericks about pussies and dicks!'' A few clicks Googled him out a masochist! (Sheer creative writing, of course. Even the slightest resemblance between this limeric and

RE: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-06 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
William R. Knox: > Has anyone who is concerned about this read some of the, > shall we say, less than pure comments that developers will on > occasion put into comments in their code? I once submitted a patch to Setup that contained a comment to the effect of: "...and people in Hell want icewa

Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-06 Thread William R. Knox
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:48:33 -0600 > From: Gary R. Van Sickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Obscene Content Tiebreaker > > Ok, clearly the voting process is hopelessly flawed. When will people > learn: Democracy doesn't work. > > So, in t

Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-06 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Ok, clearly the voting process is hopelessly flawed. When will people learn: Democracy doesn't work. So, in the interest of putting this mess to bed once and for all, I ask you all to consider: WWRHD? That's right, "What Would Red Hat Do?". But please don't speculate, there's no need. We sim