Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community
On 18/09/2014, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2014 16:54:02 Curt wrote:
>> On 2014-09-17, Gian Uberto Lauri <saint@eng.it> wrote:
>> > > I think that was humor (smiley).
>> >
>> > Really? I did not see any.
>>
>> Yes, that's obvious enough.
>>
>> > > I was going to ask you what the whole
>> > > the thing had to do with Blade Runner, but I didn't.
>> >
>> > Still can't see the humor. Maybe you guys have something strong to
>> > share...
>>
>> Merely a cinematic reference.
>
> British (Anglo-Saxon?) humour. Since you said "humor", Curt, presumably
> Anglo-Saxon, not specifically British.
>
Now, this is where it gets really funny.
Anglo-saxon = german - angles were a germanic people, so were the
saxons. And, the "british" royal family is german (house of saxe
coburg-gotha, from memory, to do with the von basten Battenburgs)
humor is USA spelling, the home of the Sarah Palin tea party (like the
mad hatter's tea party, I believe - "I can shoot at russia from my
kitchen window")
And, in a couple of days time, we get to find whether the term
"british" will just be a historical thing.
Oh, and, with the reference to macintoshes - weren't their cases made
of plastic? If so, does that make them "plastic macs"?
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Bret Busby
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