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RE: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Talk Amongst Your Elves'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:50:07 +0100
- Subject: RE: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
----Original Message----
>From: Corinna Vinschen
>Sent: 21 April 2005 13:00
> On Apr 20 18:23, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Apr 20 17:43, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> On Apr 20 17:00, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>>>>> Yes, now back to our regularly scheduled hippos...
>>>>> I'm under the impression you're a hippochondriac.
>>>> If I don't stop laughing now, I'll die of hippoxia.
>>> Be careful. Even if you don't die, it could seriously damage your
>>> hippothalamus.
>> Such hippocrisy[*]...
>> Igor
>> [*] According to "aspell", we have about 3 words left before we start
>> repeating ourselves. :-)
>
> Really? You're kidding. Let's see...
>
> hippoglycemic
> hippomania
> hippotenuse
>
> [time passes]
>
> hippobolic
> hippo-ventilating
>
> [more time passes]
>
> hippo-threading
>
> [a lot of time passes]
>
> hippi <- A hippo with long hair
>
>
> Huh!
>
> Corinna
Q. What's bad-tempered, short-sighted, always complaining about things,
deeply dishonest with itself, and contains enough enriched uranium to
undergo spontaneous nuclear fission?
A. Hippo-critical mass!
cheers,
DaveK
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