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From: "Raye Raskin" <rayer AT pobox DOT com>
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"?


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