From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: "i dunno,
maybe 'credit the original sources' means 'offer them a loan' or
something, i'll admit to not doing that" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: WTF proposed acronym
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0871E8.3050401@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU113-W18DE19D4454D34EA91FEEFBEA00@phx.gbl>
Mike Marchywka wrote:
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:00:51 +0000
>>>> From: dave.korn.cygwin@
>> Kindly lose that shit, I get enough spam as it is!
>
> Is that anyway to describe your own name? LOL
You think that's my name? Either you can't tell the difference between a
name and an email address, or you must think my parents were incredibly
farsighted!
>>>> Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And, you gotta love any acronym of this sort that begins
>>>>> with MIT, ends with two TPs, has an MD in the middle,
>>>>> contains no obscentities and refers to man's best friend.
>>>> I am the great Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole! I come from Lake
>>>> Obscentiticaca in Nicaragua!
>>> wtf is lake Obscentiticaca, I've seen beavis and butthead,
>> Cornholio often claims to come from Lake Titicaca.
>> Lee typo'd obscenities in a way that made it sound like "obscene titties".
>> I put the two together.
>
> without credit to the original sources?
Attention span, much? See that bit up at the top there?
>>>> Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We call this thing an "attribution line"(*). And I figured Beavis and
Butthead were famous enough to count as part of our shared cultural milieu.
cheers,
DaveK
--
(*) - inb4 any kind of "attribution? are you sure that's the same thing as
crediting an original source?" nonsense arises.
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2009-11-21 19:48 ` [OT] Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK Dave Korn
2009-11-21 19:48 ` WTF proposed acronym Lee D. Rothstein
2009-11-21 20:46 ` Dave Korn
2009-11-21 21:37 ` Mike Marchywka
2009-11-21 22:15 ` Dave Korn
2009-11-21 22:35 ` Mike Marchywka
2009-11-21 22:49 ` Dave Korn [this message]
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