So, [was Re: Submission for "Most Curious, 3rd Millenium AD"]
When do I get my award?
I think, instead of waiting 998 years, perhaps we
could _also_ have an "Annual Most Curious Contest?"
Two other things...
1. The correct spelling would likely have been
Frankenstein_ian_ (not to be confused with Deb_ian_)
2. "Stein" is a suffix, Alex just have the wrong
LOCALE set on his mail reader.
--- Alexander Hvostov <alex@aoi.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 02:18, Peter Makholm wrote:
> > Alexander Hvostov <alex@aoi.dyndns.org> writes:
> >
> > > 'sid' is an acronym for 'Still In Development'.
> It is synonymous with
> > > 'unstable', and is a holdover from when there
> was no 'testing'. At that
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Everything else is from Toy Story (2). This is
> because Bruce Perens
> > > worked for Pixar during much of his Debian
> career.
> >
> > Just for the record: Sid was the boy next door
> that broke his toys and
> > made Frankensteinstein toys out of it.
> ^^^^^
> error <stdin>:13: unknown suffix `stein'
>
> So 'sid' might be a backronym. My point still
> stands, though.
>
> Alex.
>
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