offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)

Danilo Turina danilo.turina@alcatel.it
Fri Apr 22 09:08:00 GMT 2005


Too many hippos!!!!!!!!

Now I want to stop reading e-mails and I want to listen to some music...

...hip(po) hop(po) for example!

Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> 
>>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>>Sent: 21 April 2005 18:04
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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!
>>
>>And how many of those are words you'd use in a normal conversation?
>>I meant "hippoglycemic", "hippotenuse", and "hippie".  Everything else
>>seems contrived.
> 
> 
> 
>   Look into my eyes...... you are feeling sleepy.... very sleepy..... the
> puns do not seem contrived..... repeat after me..... the puns do not seem
> contrived.
> 
>   Now, when I click my fingers you will wake up.
> 
>   You will feel refreshed and well-rested.
> 
> 
> 
>   ... and of course, you will remember nothing of being hipponotized!
> 
> 
>>	Igor
>>P.S. Why would anyone want "hypothreading"? :-D
> 
> 
>   Well, you can never have too much threading, or too many hippos!
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK



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