Re: whinging poms again: (was Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise))

2003-09-02 Thread cr
On Monday 01 September 2003 23:13, Geoff Thurman wrote: Apologies for picking up a dropped thread, particularly when it has little (read nothing) to do with Debian, but a couple of things have been gnawing away at my mind. I have snipped from various branches of the thread: On  2003-08-19

Re: whinging poms again: (was Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise))

2003-09-02 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:02 am, cr wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 23:13, Geoff Thurman wrote: Apologies for picking up a dropped thread, particularly when it has little (read nothing) to do with Debian, but a couple of things have been gnawing away at my mind. I have snipped from

re: Whinging Poms.

2003-09-02 Thread David Palmer
/quote; It also seems that the apple in the garden of Eden might 'in fact' have   been a pomegranate, in which case it does go back rather a long way. I accept your point though; this doesn't prove they were widely known in this part of the world. I've spent a few minutes on google and can

Re: whinging poms again: (was Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise))

2003-09-02 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:37:28PM +0200, Geoff Thurman wrote: It also seems that the apple in the garden of Eden might 'in fact' have been a pomegranate, in which case it does go back rather a long way. It puzzles me where these theories come from. The Bible doesn't say it's an apple or any

Re: whinging poms again: (was Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise))

2003-09-01 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Monday 01 September 2003 1:13 pm, Geoff Thurman wrote: Apologies for picking up a dropped thread, particularly when it has little (read nothing) to do with Debian, but a couple of things have been gnawing away at my mind. I have snipped from various branches of the thread: On Tuesday 19