Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker

2005-01-06 Thread 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 have come across a few that are, at very least, very rude, if not downright indecent (depending on where you draw the line of indecency)

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 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

2005-01-07 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

2005-01-07 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 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 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 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 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/ |\ _,,,---,,_