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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'The Cygwin-Splat Hippo Maiming List'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: cyg/lib DLL naming
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SERRANOnM21qJTD1g3j0000009e@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0506171209360.25537@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>

----Original Message----
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 17 June 2005 17:10

> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Dave Korn
>>> Sent: 17 June 2005 10:23
>> 
>>> ----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.
>> 
>> P.P.S.  Unless the hippo is wearing a parachute, of course!
> 
> Yeah, that gives you about 5 seconds...
> 	Igor


  Well, that should be enough time to get out from under *most* hippos.
They're only a few yards from end to end, after all.


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-17 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1118925021.42b170ddc88c7@email.fit.vutbr.cz>
2005-06-16 13:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2005-06-16 14:42   ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-16 14:48     ` Dave Korn
2005-06-16 15:00       ` Corinna Vinschen
2005-06-16 15:14       ` Brian Dessent
2005-06-16 15:28         ` One Angry User
2005-06-16 16:24           ` Brian Dessent
2005-06-16 15:20       ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-17  3:29       ` Charles Wilson
2005-06-17  9:22         ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-17  9:58           ` Dave Korn
2005-06-17 16:08             ` Dave Korn
2005-06-17 16:32               ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-17 19:24                 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2005-06-18  0:07             ` Shankar Unni
2005-06-18  6:49             ` Cary Jamison
2005-06-20  1:11               ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-22  9:27                 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-16 15:17   ` Christopher Faylor
2005-06-16 15:37     ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-16 16:26     ` Dave Korn
2005-06-16 16:28       ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-16 23:00         ` Christopher Faylor
2005-06-16 16:29       ` Christopher Faylor

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