On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
[...]
>> Five to ten years from now that quotation will
>> be just history, like the ones from/about JFK, Richard Nixon, and
>> Spiro Agnew.
>
> Actually there are several things in the main fortunes file that I
>
In message:
"Carlos A. M. dos Santos" writes:
: 2010/1/8 Doug Barton :
: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
: >> I don't see how the Rumsfeld quote could offend anyone.
: >
: > A) Better safe than sorry
: > B) Regardless of my own opinions I can easily see how someone could be
: > offended
In message: <201001061400.26082@freebsd.org>
John Baldwin writes:
: On Wednesday 06 January 2010 9:13:56 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
: > Doug Barton writes:
: > > First off, thanks for sorting these, that's a step in the right
: > > direction. :) However, a few quibbles. First,
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:43:10AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> FWIW, while I am definitely in favor of treating all people with
> courtesy and respect, I am just about as
> anti-mindless-political-correctness as you can possibly be.
*feels tickle in brain-stem*... *clickety-click*... Ah, yes.
I
Am 08.01.2010 um 19:43 schrieb Doug Barton:
Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
2010/1/8 Doug Barton :
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
I don't see how the Rumsfeld quote could offend anyone.
A) Better safe than sorry
B) Regardless of my own opinions I can easily see how someone
could be
offended b
Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> 2010/1/8 Doug Barton :
>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>> I don't see how the Rumsfeld quote could offend anyone.
>> A) Better safe than sorry
>> B) Regardless of my own opinions I can easily see how someone could be
>> offended by anything having to do with Rumsfeld
2010/1/8 Doug Barton :
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> I don't see how the Rumsfeld quote could offend anyone.
>
> A) Better safe than sorry
> B) Regardless of my own opinions I can easily see how someone could be
> offended by anything having to do with Rumsfeld, the Iraq war, etc.
Perhaps, at th
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> I don't see how the Rumsfeld quote could offend anyone.
A) Better safe than sorry
B) Regardless of my own opinions I can easily see how someone could be
offended by anything having to do with Rumsfeld, the Iraq war, etc.
Doug
--
Improve the effectiveness o
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 9:13:56 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Doug Barton writes:
> > First off, thanks for sorting these, that's a step in the right
> > direction. :) However, a few quibbles. First, our rule is that
> > anything which might offend someone belongs in fortunes-o, and
> > po
Doug Barton writes:
> First off, thanks for sorting these, that's a step in the right
> direction. :) However, a few quibbles. First, our rule is that
> anything which might offend someone belongs in fortunes-o, and
> political quotes are always in the category of "might offend someone."
I don't
Stanislav Sedov writes:
> Hmm, I'm not by any means the English language expert [just learning],
> but isn't "invasion of" in this context is somewhat vague? I mean,
> from what I see from dictionaries "invasion of smth" could mean both
> the action by smth, and action against smth. Is "invasion
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:24:47PM -0800, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> from what I see from dictionaries "invasion of smth" could mean both
> the action by smth, and action against smth. Is "invasion to"
> grammatically incorrect?
I'm far from being an expert either, but invasion is clearly "of".
It
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:03:18 -0800
Doug Barton mentioned:
> Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> > Thanks for suggestions!
>
> And thank you for making the changes. :)
>
> > What's regarding the "there're" spelling --- I'm not sure what the
> > correct version is: I took this quote from the San Francisco
>
Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> Thanks for suggestions!
And thank you for making the changes. :)
> What's regarding the "there're" spelling --- I'm not sure what the
> correct version is: I took this quote from the San Francisco
> Chronicle newspaper, and it saved the original spelling.
Couple of thing
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:28:51 -0800
Doug Barton mentioned:
> First off, thanks for sorting these, that's a step in the right
> direction. :) However, a few quibbles. First, our rule is that
> anything which might offend someone belongs in fortunes-o, and
> political quotes are always in the categ
First off, thanks for sorting these, that's a step in the right
direction. :) However, a few quibbles. First, our rule is that
anything which might offend someone belongs in fortunes-o, and
political quotes are always in the category of "might offend someone."
(FWIW, neither of these are offensive
Author: stas
Date: Mon Jan 4 09:16:35 2010
New Revision: 201477
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/201477
Log:
- Add two particulary interesting quotes from the past decade.
Modified:
head/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
Modified: head/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
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