From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'Th' Shygwin-Talk Maiminging Lisht <urp>'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Wading in piles of hippo dung...
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003201c6c188$e7dc3800$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44E39FD0.20B73FD1@dessent.net>
On 16 August 2006 23:45, Brian Dessent wrote:
> mwoehlke wrote:
>
>> Do we keep records anywhere for 'longest-running thread', 'deepest
>> thread', etc? All the 'make broke' whiners have (so far) produced a
>> thread with 90 post (65 in cygwin, 25 in cygwin-talk) that is 25 levels
>> deep. :-) And that doesn't count the other threads...
>>
>> Hmm, depth = number of posts in -talk... coincidence?
>>
>> Nope, it's all CGF's evil fault. :-D
>
> It's times like this that I think Cygwin needs an official drinking
> game...
>
> * Every time someone [ ... snip ... ]
<hic> Thatsh a greaaaat game!!1!2!!3! But I think my liver hatesh you! :-/
> * EVERY TIME THAT A HIPPO IS MENTIONED, FINISH YOUR DRINK AND GET A NEW
> ONE.
Including that time? <glug>
BTW, you left one out:
* Every time someone builds dkpg or rpm and reports that it doesn't work, take
a sip. If they suggest switching over the entire distro to use dpkg or rpm,
in order to make it work, take a glug.
:-)
cheers,
DaveK
--
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-16 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-16 21:45 mwoehlke
2006-08-16 22:18 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-16 23:10 ` mwoehlke
2006-08-16 22:44 ` Brian Dessent
2006-08-16 23:08 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-16 23:08 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2006-08-16 23:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-08-16 23:16 ` mwoehlke
2006-08-17 0:21 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-08-17 7:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2006-08-17 0:15 ` Igor Peshansky
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