From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23809 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2005 15:58:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 23788 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jun 2005 15:58:33 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:58:33 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5EFwRW3005231 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:58:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:59:00 -0000 From: One Angry User X-X-Sender: pechtcha@slinky.cs.nyu.edu Reply-To: Blaaab Babble Boogle Bop To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Subject: RE: My Spacebar is OK! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00426.txt.bz2 On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Igor Pechtchanski > >Sent: 13 June 2005 18:34 > > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> ----Original Message---- > >>> From: Igor Pechtchanski > >>> Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06 > >> > >>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > >>> > >>>> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot > >>>> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off > >>>> the top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of > >>>> a coffee-table! > >>> > >>> You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-) > >>> Igor > >> > >> No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo. That's why the > >> hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height! > > > > Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the edge, > > would there? > > Igor > > It wasn't pushed, it jumped! Got an alibi? OAU