From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10585 invoked by alias); 17 Jun 2005 09:22:40 -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 10568 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jun 2005 09:22:36 -0000 Received: from host217-40-213-68.in-addr.btopenworld.com (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:22:36 +0000 Received: from mace ([192.168.1.25]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:22:34 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'The Cygwin-Talk Mammalian List'" Subject: RE: cyg/lib DLL naming Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:58:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00450.txt.bz2 ----Original Message---- >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: 17 June 2005 04:30 > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> Dave Korn wrote: >> >>> OK, I'm all for Igor getting away in time, but giving them >>> parachutes does spoil that lovely SPLATTTTT sound they usually make >>> when they hit the ground! Can you strap tape-recorders to their backs >>> so that we can still have sound-effects? >> >> No no no. Hippos do not go SPLATTTTT. It's whales that go SPLATTTT (a >> "sudden wet thud" cf. Chp. 18) Didn't you ever read The Hitchhiker's >> Guide to the Galaxy? > > Ok, ok, whales go SPLATTTT. Hippos go SPLATTT. :-) > Igor No, whales go KERRRRRRRSQUELCHSLOSHSPPLATTTTTTTT. Whereas with hippos it's more of a WHEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeBOOOOOMTHUDSPLATTT. I hope this helps clear matters up. cheers, DaveK P.S. By the time you can hear the 'WHEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee', it's already too late to duck. -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....