From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PJ55F-0003q3-5N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:03:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A5ECE0848 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:03:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.167]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41344E07EC for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.150] (helo=smtp18.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJ4cW-0000dL-F7 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:33:48 +0100 Received: from 5ed3454e.cm-7-4b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.211.69.78] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp18.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJ4cV-0005Fd-Q0 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:33:47 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30812275C for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:33:46 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MwZOTgF-Km+C for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:33:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA4B82223 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:33:45 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)? Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:33:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201011181332.42922.joost@antarean.org> <20101118131855.24bc6e3c@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101118131855.24bc6e3c@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011181433.46105.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1PJ4cV-0005Fd-Q0 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-1.11, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_05 -1.11) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 686f5e22-e85f-4ae2-967e-350562bc96ae X-Archives-Hash: 4bcc726926bfee94dcf93f06cf1398dd On Thursday 18 November 2010 14:18:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > I thought the real reason for leap years was to boot the turnover of > > > the wedding industry. > > s/boot/boost/ > > > Oh? How does that work? > > There's a tradition here that women propose to men on the leap day, which > is why most men go into hiding on that day thereby boosting the profits > of pubs and other hiding places. One could actually argue that the profits of pubs are reduced because then the men don't take the women to the pubs. And that the pubs then miss half of their customers. -- Joost