Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:33:58 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > >> Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> writes: >> >>> Le Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:19:24 +0000, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : >>>> 4. Python 3 will make you irresistible to women. >>>> >>>> FALSE - Python 3 coders are no more likely to get a date than any >>>> other programmer. >>> They spend less time coding, so they /can/ get more "dates" (what a >>> strange English word) :-) >> Perhaps Steven could tell you about a lovely Australian meaning for the >> word “date”. > > This is a family list, so perhaps I shouldn't. :) > > In Australia slang, "date" is short for "date hole", which is the part of > the anatomy which is also known as "the [one] brown eye". In parts of the > US, it is also known as the "corn hole", and in Cockney rhyming slang it > is a jam role. > > I trust I don't need to be any more explicit... > > > My God, and I just nominated you for membership of the PSF.
Trust an Australian to descend to normally unplumbed depths (pun intended) the very second you stake your reputation on them. I guess that means I know my place ... there-goes-my-american-citizenship-ly y'rs - steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
