From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8870 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2006 00:08:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 31964 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jan 2006 18:59:41 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:59:39 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0BIxbA7002426 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:59:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:08:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:32:24AM -0500, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) > > wrote: > >> Eric Blake wrote: > >>> I hope you meant breach[1], not breech[2]. > >> > >> Maybe he meant the back of the barrel, as in "we're getting ready to > >> pull the trigger". > > > > Actually, I had it as "into the breach" initially and then did a google > > search and found "unto the breech" so I changed it. I should have just > > looked up the definition rather than trust random internet misspellers. > > You know, it occurs to me that the english language lacks - but could > greatly use - a word meaning > > "That especially embarassing combination of shame and humiliation you > feel on realising that your first instincts were absolutely sound and > right and good, and you surpressed them against your better judgement, > and went and trusted what others said, instead of your own good sense, > only to discover in the end that you were right in the first place and > should have trusted and had faith in yourself but lost confidence at the > last moment and went along with the consensus when you should have known > better that YOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG GODDAMMIT AND YOU ONLY MADE A FOOL > OF YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU WERE TRYING TO BE NICE TO OTHER PEOPLE AND > ASSUME THEY WEREN'T ALL GODDAM IDIOTS JUST FOR ONCE!" > > ...excuse me, I think I was starting to shout a bit towards the end > there.... > > Hey, Corinna, you guys invented "schadenfreude", surely /you/ must > already have a word for this emotion? Well, the American dialect of English already has a word for this emotion. The word is "D'oh!". Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"