From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'these puns are giving me the hump..'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Do not taunt Happy Fun Hippo
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002901c7cadf$97fdd120$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0707201101300.19445@access1.cims.nyu.edu>
On 20 July 2007 16:05, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> On 20 July 2007 08:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>> On Jul 19 23:10, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No really, just don't.
>>>>
>>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070718/ap_on_fe_st/odd_hippo_taunting
>>>
>>> Trying to impress a girl by throwing stones at an animal...
>>>
>>> Uhm...
>>
>> Well, I suppose it's at least marginally better than trying to impress a
>> stone by throwing animals at a girl. Or trying to impress an animal by
>> throwing girls at a stone.
>
> Isn't the latter essentially what the Phoenicians did with Andromeda?
> Igor
Surely you're thinking of what the Hipphoenicians did with Andromedary?
cheers,
DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-20 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-19 22:11 Dave Korn
2007-07-20 7:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-20 9:11 ` Dave Korn
2007-07-20 9:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2007-07-20 9:40 ` Dave Korn
2007-07-20 15:04 ` Igor Peshansky
2007-07-20 15:06 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2007-07-20 15:33 ` Igor Peshansky
2007-07-20 10:47 ` Danilo Turina
2007-07-20 10:50 ` Danilo Turina
2007-07-20 14:59 ` Igor Peshansky
2007-07-20 14:57 ` Igor Peshansky
2007-07-20 15:01 ` Dave Korn
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