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RE: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "'The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:10:03 -0500
- Subject: RE: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> From: Dave Korn
> On 18 April 2006 18:11, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Natalia M. Belfiore wrote:
> >
> >> [snip]
> >> Tasha
> >
> > Well, actually, what he wrote is unimportant. What is interesting
> > (and really unsettling to anyone who grew up in Russia) is that
> > Natalia (or
> > Natasha) is a purely female name (c.f. "War and Peace"), and this
> > person is clearly male.
> >
> > No point here, just venting... :-)
> > Igor
>
> :) At first I kinda suspected that it was a bloke
> attempting to employ the well known
> "Pose-as-a-helpless-female-and-flutter-your-virtual-eyelashes"
> technique to achieve faster response times from geek-filled
> mailing lists.......
>
Hehehheee, you'd be amazed at what that'll get you.
> Then I found....
>
> http://genome-lab.ucdavis.edu/People/TashaBelfiore/default.htm
>
> AAAAUUUUGHGHGHHHH MY EYES ARE BURNING !!!
>
Meh, he's no Gilbert Gottfried.
> http://genome-lab.ucdavis.edu/People/TashaBelfiore/personalinfo.htm
>
> "I am also called Natasha, it being a common diminutive of
> Natalia, my legal name"
>
> Note the carefully worded phrase "my legal name", plus also
> the various cute icons including a kitten and a sheep and
> someone dancing? OK, I'm going to take a guess: this can
> only be explained by GR surgery.
>
You mean, Sheena was a man? Hmmm, no, I don't buy it. You have to be
all-man all-the-time to play in a band named "Chicken Tractor".
Whom, by the way, ROCK!!!!!
> cheers,
> DaveK
> --
> Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
>
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
I can....