From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2831 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2006 17:33:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 2825 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jan 2006 17:33:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from host217-40-213-68.in-addr.btopenworld.com (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:33:02 +0000 Received: from espanola ([192.168.1.110]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:33:00 +0000 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'it's a terrible burden always being right..... particularly when you're wrong...'" Subject: RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:33:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20060111160540.GA20068@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: 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/msg00032.txt.bz2 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? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....