Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Democracy: No silver bullet

["Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>]

Duncan wrote:
> Wernfried Haas <amne@gentoo.org> posted
> 20060826101703.GA32678@superlupo.rechner, excerpted below, on  Sat, 26 Aug
> 2006 12:17:03 +0200:
> 
>>> Quit assuming I mean anything, you're batting zero for two right now.
>> What's the problem? I wasn't sure how you meant it, so i assumed you
>> meant it that way. As for batting zero for two, i never heard that
>> phrase before and have nfc what it means, but somehow that whole
>> statement doesn't seem very friendly to me.
> 
> It's an allusion to baseball.  I'm /not/ a sports fan, but I do live in
> the US, where baseball among others is popular sport and this phrase has
> entered the popular culture from there.

Duncan, these are the kinds of emails that *really* piss everyone off. 
A simple "it's a baseball thing, google it" would have sufficed.  I know 
you must be really bored while locked up in your parent's basement with 
nothing to do but write dissertations on every possible random topic, 
but please, spare us.

-Steve
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