Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy BIRTHday dear Cygwin, happy birthday to youuuuu

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Oct 28 16:04, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Yes, really, Cygwin got 10 years old, 10 days ago.  The first entry in
> >>>> the ChangeLog was
> >>>>
> >>>>   Wed Oct 18 15:34:49 1995  steve chamberlain  <sac@slash.cygnus.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> 	* Moved from newlib.
> >>>>
> >>>> after newlib was pregnant for three months:
> >>>>
> >>>>   Wed Jun 28 18:34:54 1995  Steve Chamberlain  <sac@slash.cygnus.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> 	* configure.in (i[345]86-*-pe):  New target (NT).
> >>>> 	* host/any: DLLTOOL new.
> >>>> 	* libc/sys/win32/{crt0.c, kernel32.def, longjmp.c, setjmp.c,
> >>>> 	syscalls.c wintypes.h,sys/file.h,sys/resource.h}: Preliminary support
> >>>> 	for WIN32 (just enough to cross host the comp-tools).
> >>>>
> >>>> Will Cygwin still exist in another 10 years?  Well, I'm positive.
> >>>
> >>> Woohoo!  Break out the cake and invite some hippos for entertainment!
> >>> 	Igor
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  :-(  When the hippos land in the cakes from that height, they're going
> >> to spray icing and jammy spongecake all over the walls!
> >
> > Igor was talking about a really big birthday cake with nude (yikes!)
> > hippo dancers hidden in the cake as birthday surprise, I assume.
>
>   It's ok!  They're wearing tu-tus, of course.  <phew!> :-O
>
> > But that's nothing for a ten year old.  Besides, Cygwin is *of course*
> > female, so if at all, they should be male hippo dancers.
>
>
>   AUGGGGHHH MY EYES ARE BURNING!

It's the icing droplets.  Just wash them out with water. ;-)
	Igor
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