Re: how do i grep boobies

[Hal Vaughan <hal@halblog.com>]

On Jul 4, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Saturday 04 July 2009 20:33:14 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > $ sudo apt-get install woman
> > > Reading package lists... Done
> > > Building dependency tree
> > > Reading state information... Done
> > > E: Couldn't find package woman
> > > $
> > >
> > > Oh, oh.  Out of luck, I'd guess.
> > >
> > > ...unless there might still be some women somewhere on Usenet.
> >
> > alias woman "locate; talk; date; uptime; gawk; head; clean; sleep"
>
> And then they wonder why some women find IT a hostile area....
>
> Seriously, there are female readers of this list.  Could we at least  
> pretend
> that the rest of you think we are human beings, not blow-up toys for  
> men to
> grope?

I thought a large part of the joke was self-reflexive, making fun of  
the stereotypical view of how geeks and nerds supposedly don't  
understand romantic relationships, in other words, that it was as much  
people making fun of the stereotypes they could fall into as it was  
anything else.


Hal