From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GGyqd-0007Rr-UO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:09:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7QE8WHB015645; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:08:32 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7QE6gUw030810 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:06:42 GMT Received: from steiner.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-steiner.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.14]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k7QE6fau016385 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:06:41 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (blacksburg-bsr1-69-170-32-128.chvlva.adelphia.net [69.170.32.128]) by steiner.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.8.0-FCS) with ESMTP id FVZ54371 (AUTH spbecker); Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:06:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44F05582.40709@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:06:58 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060729) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Democracy: No silver bullet References: <44ECF00D.7050107@gentoo.org> <20060824145416.13761551@snowdrop.home> <1156458543.19720.57.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060825171359.GB15870@superlupo.rechner> <1156530953.8585.56.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20060826101703.GA32678@superlupo.rechner> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d2f5cc35-dfb2-4636-8283-0b8e4093b59a X-Archives-Hash: ea5fc68c592f604fc1750176c4ca36d0 Duncan wrote: > Wernfried Haas 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list