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From: Dave Woodfall <dave@unrealize.co.uk>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Proposal: That the Hippo becomes the official mascot of Cygwin
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090219182829.GA28847@Junius> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xns9BB59853F91D5zzappergmailcom@80.91.229.13>

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On (14:58 17/02/09), zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk> put forth the proposition:
>Warren Young wrote in news:49959F46.1020807@etr-usa.com:
>
>
>> It's a difficult challenge.  The reason for picking hippos is that 
>> they're mean, because WJM here.  How do you have a mean-looking hippo
>> that's also attractive?  OpenSSH seems to strike a similar balance with 
>> their puffer fish mascot, but then, the connection between security and 
>> puffer fishes is obvious.
>> 
>
>Surely somebody's got graphic skills, perhaps hold a competition?
> 
>zzapper

I like the ascii art hippo when you log in myself.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-19 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-13 14:47 zzapper
2009-02-13 16:27 ` Warren Young
2009-02-13 20:51   ` Dave Korn
2009-02-14  4:01     ` Christopher Faylor
2009-02-14  5:13       ` Dave Korn
2009-02-13 20:53   ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2009-02-13 21:08     ` Dave Korn
2009-02-17 14:59   ` zzapper
2009-02-19 18:28     ` Dave Woodfall [this message]
2009-02-28  4:41       ` Joe Smith
2009-02-28  9:20         ` Dave Korn

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