On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:20:53PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Wednesday 10 July 2002 01:44 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2002.07.10.2237 +0200]: > > > > > Linus call me yesterday. Unfortunately I was out. Fortunately he let > > > > > me a voice mail saying that it would not be able to do it for my > > > > > birthday and wanted to apology for that. > > > > > > > > i have no reason to disbelieve you, but it would help if you could > > > > mention your birthday along these lines. whatever, it really doesn't > > > > matter... > > > > > > modprobe humour > > > > i did figure. > > so a witticism in english by a native french-speaker, which seemed to be > misunderstood by a native german-speaker, is attemptedly clarified by a > native english-speaker acting on the assumption that the second didn't get > the first, but.... Sorry to disappoint you but I believe martin and I understand each other pretty well on this one, even if it should not have been the first time he would have corrected my English (note that we are both in some way linked to Philadelphia, where I currently live). > kind of explains why you never hear raucous laughter at a u.n. session. I really appreciate this one. That said, it would be a perfect world if it was the only reason to look sad at a U.N. session. Christophe > ben -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E A qui sait comprendre, peu de mots suffisent. (Intelligenti pauca.)
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