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From: One Angry User <angry@lusers.org>
To: Blaaab Babble Boogle Bop <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: bash test -n && test -z return tru
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0508221649030.8277@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050822200855.GE6949@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>

On a scorching hot Monday, the 22nd of August, 2005, Christopher Faylor's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:08:48PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >>From: Christopher Faylor
> >>Sent: 22 August 2005 20:03
> >> Just to be clear, if you hear a distant rumbling noise, that's probably
> >> me.
> >>
> >> Apologies in advance.
> >
> >  Is it still you if I _smell_ a distant rumbling noise?
>
> Well, you know that the speed of odor is slower than the speed of sound,
> so...

...if you smell a distant rumbling noise, it's too late.

OAU

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-22 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <081920051927.27330.430632BB00050BE200006AC222007507440A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>
     [not found] ` <20050819194557.GA20394@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
     [not found]   ` <1124526965.7467.37.camel@p450>
     [not found]     ` <20050820161131.GA12021@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
     [not found]       ` <1124562900.8758.3.camel@p450>
     [not found]         ` <Pine.GSO.4.61.0508201456060.16057@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
     [not found]           ` <1124650378.4872.22.camel@p450>
     [not found]             ` <20050822142602.GA1223@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
2005-08-22 16:13               ` Poor Yorick
2005-08-22 17:10               ` Hannu E K Nevalainen
2005-08-22 18:30                 ` Christopher Faylor
     [not found]                 ` <20050822162923.GA4567@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
2005-08-22 18:42                   ` Bill Hughes
2005-08-22 18:52                     ` Christopher Faylor
2005-08-22 19:01                       ` One Angry User
2005-08-22 19:03                         ` Dave Korn
2005-08-22 19:10                           ` Christopher Faylor
2005-08-22 20:09                             ` Dave Korn
2005-08-22 20:50                               ` Christopher Faylor
2005-08-23  0:34                                 ` One Angry User [this message]
2005-08-24  8:55                         ` Brian Dessent

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