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RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:16:42 +0100
- Subject: RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 04 October 2004 15:31
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David Christensen
> > > Sent: 03 October 2004 03:15
> >
> > > Would you be interested in mentoring a willing volunteer?
> >
> >
> > Certainly. Just stand still right here for just one
> minute........
> >
> > ****KER-SQUELCH-SPLAT-SMACK****
> > [sound of massive slap round face with a very wet kipper]
> >
> > <brushes dust off hands> That'll learn 'im!
>
> Umm, this reminded me of a passage in a book I'm reading:
>
> "You. Name a test to determine whether a recruit is
> fit to become
> a marine."
> The dwarf scratched her trimmed beard. "The recruit is tied--"
> she hastily corrected herself "--the recruit /volunteers/ to be
> tied to a sabre-toothed tiger and shut up in its cave. If the
> recruit comes out, she passed. If the tiger comes out, she
> failed. If she comes out riding the sabre-toothed tiger, make her
> a corporal."[*]
>
> I just felt that this sums up the whole volunteering bit
> nicely. Though perhaps it's time to TITTTL...
> Igor
> [*] With apologies to Mary Gentle.
I liked that passage, it reminds me of a Harry Harrison short story I was
reading recently. Being HH, it wasn't dwarves and saber-tooths, it was corpsmen
of the space marines and their genetically-modified mutant camel steeds, which had
an annoying habit of biting. Their arms off!
cheers,
DaveK
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