Nobody here but us chickens

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 20 September 2005 17:49
>
> > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> To: 'if possession is nine-tenths of the law, does that mean losing
> >>     things is the other one-tenth?'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> >
> > No, the other one-tenth is exorcism.
>
>   Are ye' sure it's not spagetti-ism?

Possibly, though spaghetti is usually the opposite of exercise...

> >> ooh it's dark in here spooky
> >>
> >> <skrtchfffFFFFTFLARESPARKspit>   ah that's better.  i lit a match.  now
> >> let me see....
> >>
> >>    echo....
> >>         ...echo ....
> >>                ... ec  h  o . .. .     .
> >
> > bash: ec: command not found
> >
> >>    hello...
> >>          ...  hello . . ..
> >>                ....     e l l   o ...
> >
> > bash: hello: command not found
> >
> >>    HIPPO...
> >>          ...  HIPPO . . ..
> >>                ....     I P P    O ...
> >
> > bash: HIPPO: command not found
> >
> > Hmm, you must have a non-standard installation...
>
>   Yer land-lubbing swab!  Arrrr I was not typing, I was calling out in the
> dark!

Ah, which reminds me of an old joke: when the first voice recognition
system for DOS was demoed, the moment the demonstrator turned on the mike,
the crowd around roared as one: "Format C colon enter yes!".
	Igor
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