No but you'd better put one in one-third,two-thirds or ninety nine-one
hundredths off topic! :)
/B
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From: Ric Tibbetts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:00
Subject: Re: OT : light years, ah
So to ask a question
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From: Jeff Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 10:03 AM
Oddly enough, and still off topic, there is a reason that Han
Solo said
that.
Strictly star wars speaking, the kessel run was a smugglers
run from the
planet Kessel to a
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree with William Ward:
Can we please get back to Redhat Linux now?
I started this whole thing off,
caused mainly by my not understanding
the common use of miles ahead
and thus i leaped to criticize use of light-years
bc I was taking its use by another
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 06:16:53PM +, Jack Byers wrote:
which I now understand he was not (apologies to Hal),
No problem. I had wanted to say it was a figure of speech, which then
allows for breaking any and all normal rules of language, logic and
science :)
--
Hal Burgiss
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Jack Byers wrote:
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree with William Ward:
Can we please get back to Redhat Linux now?
I started this whole thing off,
caused mainly by my not understanding
the common use of miles ahead
and thus i leaped to criticize use of light-years
bc I was taking its
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 13:15, Jack Byers wrote:
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hal Burgiss responded to another thread:
Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when
you consider vim can be used as the editor.
I am reasonably sure most members of this list,
fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:57:51PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
Han Solo: Fast? Yeah, she's fast. She made the Kessel run in
under 12 parsecs.
Which makes sense only if the kessel run is some kind of benchmark
other than a DISTANCE benchmark, i.e., if they're
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 11:15, Jack Byers wrote:
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hal Burgiss responded to another thread:
Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when
you consider vim can be used as the editor.
I am reasonably sure most members of this list,
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Jack Byers wrote:
Hal Burgiss responded to another thread:
Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when
you consider vim can be used as the editor.
I am reasonably sure most members of this list, and almost surely Hal
himself, really know that
Jack Byers wrote:
It's no worse than saying miles ahead of but that is badjunk use too.
call me an old f**t if you must, but I couldn't help responding to this
Actually, I think I'll just consider you mistaken. Saying miles ahead is
a perfectly valid way to describe the difference between two
On March 17, 2003 01:15 pm, Jack Byers wrote:
Hal Burgiss responded to another thread:
Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when
you consider vim can be used as the editor.
I am reasonably sure most members of this list,
and almost surely Hal himself,
really know
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT : light years, ah
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:57:51 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Jack Byers wrote:
Han Solo: Fast? Yeah
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hal Burgiss responded to another thread:
Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when
you consider vim can be used as the editor.
I am reasonably sure most members of this list,
and almost surely Hal himself,
really know that light
So to ask a question:
Is there a hyphen in anal-retentive
Ric
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:54:17AM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 11:15, Jack Byers wrote:
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hal Burgiss responded to another thread:
Mutt + procmail is light years ahead
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:15:07 +, Jack Byers wrote:
Hal Burgiss responded to another thread:
Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when
you consider vim can be used as the editor.
I am reasonably sure most
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:57:51PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Jack Byers wrote:
Hal Burgiss responded to another thread:
Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when
you consider vim can be used as the editor.
I am reasonably sure
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:14:06PM +, Jack Byers wrote:
snip
great example!
my trouble with this type of stuff is I can never tell
when the the author is unconscious
or just (mis)using the language to make a joke
or worse misusing bc they know most people dont know
how to read
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