monstrous arse [Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86]

[Tom <tb.31020.nospam@comcast.net>]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:52:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson                |     It just seems to me that you are
> Debian GNU/Linux                   |     willfully entering an arse-kicking
> branden@debian.org                 |     contest with a monstrous entity
> http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     that has sixteen legs and no arse.

Okay, googling for "monstrous entity" and "sixteen legs" shows that this 
quote is a .SIG that has been passed around a few times, but I can't 
find the original quote or any context to explain it.

Is Debian the monstrous entity or the wilful enterer?  Am I the arse?
<grin>