On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 05:38:02PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:10, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Bad analogy. A more appropriate analogy is "he stole a candy so we won't > > > allow him in a sweet shop". > > If so, the usual punishment for stealing a candy is to be lectured about > > it, told the right way to behave, and to pay the dollar or so it would've > > cost, not to be forbidden from ever entering a sweet shop again. > In the UK there is a common policy of banning delinquent children from the > center of town (the shopping area). May I ask how many children are declared delinquent after stealing their first candy bar? I assume we're going to move onto the poisoning children analogy, or the grafitti one, or something else now. (We ought to require analogy licenses.) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Dear Anthony Towns: [...] Congratulations -- you are now certified as a Red Hat Certified Engineer!''
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