Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:26:53 +0000
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:45:45AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'.
> At the risk of spoiling it, it's a long-standing joke. The developer of
> apt was known at one point for saying "moo" a lot, and is still
> occasionally referred to as the cowman; related jokes propagated.
Hell. This former farm boy has been feeling smug & superior,
recalling the Jargon File's entry `ASCII art'. There ESR reports `an
entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows.'
Moo. Even mu.
Wendell Cochran
West Seattle
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