Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:01:09PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > I've always wanted to turn up to something like that with a "Fascists for > Peace" or suchlike banner ;-) I think the Fugs went straight to the heart of the matter with "Kill for Peace". dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > I liked the earlier versions of AIX (among others) where the default > error for make was 'don't know how to make [foo]' thus: > > $> make love > don't know how to make love > $> > > Which always seemed kind of sad to me. Googling for "funny unix co

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Steve Mynott
From: "David Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:26:50AM +, alex wrote: > > how about we meet up for drinks after attending the "Stop the > > War" rally [1] on February 15th. who would like to propose some venues > > (after 5:30 in the hyde park vicinity)? > > What a jo

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:26:50AM +, alex wrote: > how about we meet up for drinks after attending the "Stop the > War" rally [1] on February 15th. who would like to propose some venues > (after 5:30 in the hyde park vicinity)? What a jolly good idea. I've always wanted to turn up to somethi

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:31:47PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Lusercop wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:29:12PM -, Ivor Williams wrote: > >>Reminds me of a rule we used to have in the Makefile defaults: > >>love: > >>echo "not war?" > >Arrggghh

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread robin szemeti
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 13:49, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > Ah, but most of us (being programmers) can do the maths and know > > that in the long term you will always money. > > Money as a verb - what's the secret of your success Dave? there was an implicit 'lose' in there. these days whenver peo

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Lusercop wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:29:12PM -, Ivor Williams wrote: Reminds me of a rule we used to have in the Makefile defaults: love: echo "not war?" Arrgggh! I liked the earlier versions of AIX (among others) where the defaul

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:29:12PM -, Ivor Williams wrote: > Reminds me of a rule we used to have in the Makefile defaults: > love: > echo "not war?" Arrgggh! -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:35:28PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: >How about: > #!/usr/bin/peace Ah, but in HippieCommieSympNix peace is in the /bin directory, as it's an essential part of bringing up the system... R

RE: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Ivor Williams
On Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:35 PM, Andy Wardley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > "london perl mongers for peace" sounds really cool but i would also > > respect the view that in terms of Perl Advocacy and gaining mindshare in > > corporate land, having Perl associated with political ideolo

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Toby|Wintrmute
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:36:54AM -0800, Dave Cross wrote: > > how about we meet up for drinks after attending the "Stop > > the War" rally [1] on February 15th. who would like to > > propose some venues (after 5:30 in the hyde park > > vicinity)? > > Excellent idea. Why not meet up beforehand

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Cross
From: Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 1/28/03 1:49:53 PM >On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:29:56AM -0800, Dave Cross wrote: >> >> From: Peter Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 1/28/03 10:01:38 AM >> >> > What's wrong with fruit machines? Some of us (well, >> > perhaps just me) are attra

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:29:56AM -0800, Dave Cross wrote: > > From: Peter Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 1/28/03 10:01:38 AM > > > What's wrong with fruit machines? Some of us (well, perhaps > > > just me) are attracted to the beautiful, hypnotic lights, > > and the voices that whisper

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Andy Wardley
> "london perl mongers for peace" sounds really cool but i would also > respect the view that in terms of Perl Advocacy and gaining mindshare in > corporate land, having Perl associated with political ideology could be > doing the wider community a disservice. How about: London Peace Mongers

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:53, alex wrote: > this was also roger's idea. yes, let's do it. > > "london perl mongers for peace" sounds really cool but i would also > respect the view that in terms of Perl Advocacy and gaining mindshare in > corporate land, having Perl associated with political ideol

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:01:38AM +, Peter Sergeant wrote: > > I liked this pub. No music, few fruit machines, good (Young's) beer > > including Winter Warmer on tap and (bottled, of course) Double Chocolate > > Stout. The Hamster race was bizarre, to say the least, but I liked the pub. > > Oh

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread alex
this was also roger's idea. yes, let's do it. "london perl mongers for peace" sounds really cool but i would also respect the view that in terms of Perl Advocacy and gaining mindshare in corporate land, having Perl associated with political ideology could be doing the wider community a disservic

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Alex Knowles
> > here's an additional suggestion: > > > > how about we meet up for drinks after attending the "Stop > > the War" rally [1] on February 15th. who would like to > > propose some venues (after 5:30 in the hyde park > > vicinity)? actually - i was gonna go to this - it would be nice to know some pe

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread the hatter
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Peter Sergeant wrote: > > I liked this pub. No music, few fruit machines, good (Young's) beer > > including Winter Warmer on tap and (bottled, of course) Double Chocolate > > Stout. The Hamster race was bizarre, to say the least, but I liked the pub. > > Oh, and it's only abou

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:36:54AM -0800, Dave Cross wrote: >Excellent idea. Why not meet up beforehand? We could be one of >those big groups on the match - with a banner. "Perl Mongers >for Peace" or something like that :) Works for me. Roger

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:36, Dave Cross wrote: > From: alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 1/28/03 10:26:50 AM > > > here's an additional suggestion: > > > > how about we meet up for drinks after attending the "Stop > > the War" rally [1] on February 15th. who would like to > > propose some venues

Re: Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Cross
From: alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 1/28/03 10:26:50 AM > here's an additional suggestion: > > how about we meet up for drinks after attending the "Stop > the War" rally [1] on February 15th. who would like to > propose some venues (after 5:30 in the hyde park > vicinity)? Excellent idea. W

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Cross
From: Peter Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 1/28/03 10:01:38 AM > What's wrong with fruit machines? Some of us (well, perhaps > just me) are attracted to the beautiful, hypnotic lights, > and the voices that whisper "Play with me, play with me", > and win frequent, 'moral' victories over th

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Ben
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:22:39AM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: > > The pub is on the corner of Parkway and Albert Rd, about 4 or 5 minutes walk > from the tube. Plenty of seating, friendly bar-staff. I saw 3 or 4 different > lagers, Guinness, 3 or 4 bitters on tap, and of course Double Chocolate

Drink for Peace? [[was: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1]]

2003-01-28 Thread alex
here's an additional suggestion: how about we meet up for drinks after attending the "Stop the War" rally [1] on February 15th. who would like to propose some venues (after 5:30 in the hyde park vicinity)? yes, i am cheekily introducing a charged, political sub-thread, but hey, if we have enoug

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Lusercop
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:22:39AM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: > The pub is on the corner of Parkway and Albert Rd, about 4 or 5 minutes walk St. Only problem for me is that it's the pub where my parents drink, and it used to be a whole lot nastier

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Peter Sergeant
> I liked this pub. No music, few fruit machines, good (Young's) beer > including Winter Warmer on tap and (bottled, of course) Double Chocolate > Stout. The Hamster race was bizarre, to say the least, but I liked the pub. > Oh, and it's only about 4 minutes stagger from Wagamama, which was closed

[PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Joel Bernstein
I liked this pub. No music, few fruit machines, good (Young's) beer including Winter Warmer on tap and (bottled, of course) Double Chocolate Stout. The Hamster race was bizarre, to say the least, but I liked the pub. Oh, and it's only about 4 minutes stagger from Wagamama, which was closed by the t