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To: | "Rodrigo de Salvo Braz" <braz AT uiuc DOT edu>, |
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Subject: | Re: Obscene content in cygwin file. |
Date: | Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:54 -0800 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodrigo de Salvo Braz" To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:04 PM Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file. > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing the >> profanity at all? > > A number of people like them. Variety is the spice of life, and isn't variety what fortune is all about? Also, I've never met anyone, *anyone* who doesn't like a good (key word) dirty joke. Perhaps the problem is the quality, not the color. I mentioned in an earlier post that maybe fortune is misnamed. I wasn't joking or being sarcastic. How about "nonsense" or "hogwash" or "duck"? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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