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RE: [ADMINISTRIVIA] We soon will be blocking legal disclaimers
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:29:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: [ADMINISTRIVIA] We soon will be blocking legal disclaimers
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 10 August 2007 18:02, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> On 10 August 2007 16:05, phil long wrote:
> >>
> >>> Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Long, Phillip GOSS wrote:
> >>>>> Sigh ... if I had a way, I'd clip out the bozo string my employer's
> >>>>> email server tacks onto the end of every message.
> >>>>
> >>>> nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin
> >>>
> >>> -------------------------------------
> >>> \ | | | | | /
> >>> \---------------------------------/
> >>> \__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|_/
> >>>
> >>> (really /bad/ rendition of a _*/huge/*_ grin).
> >>
> >> So, what species has half as many (double-width) teeth on the upper
> >> jaw as it does on the lower?
> >
> > Why, hippos, of course!
>
> I rather think not ...
>
> http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/17/images/2006031718590301.jpg
>
> Maybe it's a hippo doing a headstand?
Exactly. After a few beers...
> >> ... to say of nothing that the two sets of teeth appear to *both* be
> >> pointing downward....
> >
> > /__-------------------__\
> > /`._|_|_|_|__|__|_|_|_|_.'\
> > `.|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|.'
> > `~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'
> >
> > Satisfied? :-D
> > Igor
> > P.S. You do need a font where ~ appears at the top of the line (about
> > as high as an apostrophe), or you'll get a whole bottom row of broken
> > teeth...
>
> Oh, is that what it is? I just thought you must have tried telling the
> hippo to buy a round!
Not "telling". Asking (politely).
Igor
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