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Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:26:24 -0400
- Subject: Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 07:24:48PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Lionel B
>>Sent: 20 April 2005 10:56
>
>> "Christopher Faylor" wrote ...
>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:59:56AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> ----Original Message----
>>>>> From: Christopher Faylor
>>>>> Sent: 19 April 2005 02:28
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:49:40AM +0530, NNK_ml wrote:
>>>>>> Am doing a little looking-into in to the purpose of the special
>>>>>> folders in Linux though...
>>>>>
>>>>> Just a bit of trivia: did you know that a porpoise was a mammal?
>>>>>
>>>>> I know! I thought they were related to whales! I think science is fun!
>>>>
>>>> Whales are just overgrown hippopotamuses. Um. Hippopotami. Hippos,
>>>> goddamit. Anyway they're just big ones.
>>>
>>> Actually, all kidding aside, this is correct, right? They think that
>>> whales and hippos came from a common ancestor, don't they?
>>
>> Any two species that ever existed on the planet have a common ancestral
>> species... ok, for a T. Rex and a greengage plum you might have to go
>> back a bit.
>>
>>> Also, apparently "death by hippo" is fairly common. They are aggressive
>>> beasts.
>>
>> Also short-tempered and short-sighted.
>
>You're not kidding! I used to be an opthalmologist. We had a hippo
>come in for a vision test one afternoon. When I asked him to try and
>read the smallest line on the reading chart, he was *livid*!
>
>Honestly, talk about awkward customers. We put up a sign saying 'No
>hippos' after that. Then someone pointed out that we might be in
>breach of disability discrimination legislation, so we put up another
>sign saying "Except guide hippos for the blind". It was just typical
>we'd get a deaf customer in that afternoon with her hearing-ear hippo.
>
>After all that, I got out of the opthalmology business.
I'm not surprised. You obviously never really subscribed to the
hippocratic oath.
cgf