From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:16:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110517081620.5ec4d908@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105170149.29658.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:49:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
should be
> referred to using the neuter form of pronouns, i.e. "it", as befitting
> their overall contribution to humanity.
>
> You see what I did there? You see how I recovered with a witty reposte
> without even blinking an eye? It takes nerves of steel and much
> practise to pull that one off, I tell you!
>
> Let's see how long it takes Neil to find the grammar errors in that
> lot :-)
>
Well, since you asked...
> All objects of technology (aka stuff what we work on),
Stuff WHAT we work on?
> Users, n00bs, marketing persons, hairdressers, telephone handset
> sanitizers and other assorted riff-raff of the human species
Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, so that should be
telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :)
Oh, and it should be grammatical errors :P
--
Neil Bothwick
I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
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2011-05-14 20:06 ` [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) Indi
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2011-05-14 22:29 ` Indi
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2011-05-16 23:28 ` [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!) Indi
2011-05-16 23:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-17 7:16 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-05-17 7:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-17 9:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-17 8:22 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-05-17 8:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-17 9:21 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-05-17 9:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-17 9:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-17 9:34 ` Joost Roeleveld
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2011-05-14 9:38 ` [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) Felix Miata
2011-05-14 10:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-14 11:52 ` Mick
2011-05-14 13:20 ` Felix Miata
2011-05-16 2:18 ` Felix Miata
2011-05-16 2:54 ` [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!) Felix Miata
2011-05-16 8:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-16 11:58 ` Tanstaafl
2011-05-16 12:43 ` JDM
2011-05-16 12:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-16 14:49 ` Stroller
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2011-05-16 14:57 ` Indi
2011-05-16 19:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-16 20:35 ` JDM
2011-05-16 15:26 ` Indi
2011-05-16 16:00 ` Felix Miata
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2011-05-16 16:18 ` Indi
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2011-05-16 16:30 ` Indi
2011-05-16 18:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-16 21:15 ` Dale
2011-05-16 21:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-16 23:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-16 23:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-18 5:16 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-05-16 23:22 ` Felix Miata
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2011-05-16 21:45 ` Indi
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2011-05-17 10:40 ` Indi
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