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RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the wholeCygwin release/ distribution
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:24:22 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the wholeCygwin release/ distribution
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> [Thread TITTTLd from main list!]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski
> > Sent: 04 October 2004 15:31
>
> > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David Christensen
> > > > Sent: 03 October 2004 03:15
> > >
> > > > Would you be interested in mentoring a willing volunteer?
> > >
> > > Certainly. Just stand still right here for just one minute........
> > >
> > > ****KER-SQUELCH-SPLAT-SMACK****
> > > [sound of massive slap round face with a very wet kipper]
> > >
> > > <brushes dust off hands> That'll learn 'im!
> >
> > Umm, this reminded me of a passage in a book I'm reading:
> >
> > "You. Name a test to determine whether a recruit is
> > fit to become
> > a marine."
> > The dwarf scratched her trimmed beard. "The recruit is tied--"
> > she hastily corrected herself "--the recruit /volunteers/ to be
> > tied to a sabre-toothed tiger and shut up in its cave. If the
> > recruit comes out, she passed. If the tiger comes out, she
> > failed. If she comes out riding the sabre-toothed tiger, make her
> > a corporal."[*]
> >
> > I just felt that this sums up the whole volunteering bit
> > nicely. Though perhaps it's time to TITTTL...
> > Igor
> > [*] With apologies to Mary Gentle.
>
> I liked that passage, it reminds me of a Harry Harrison short story I
> was reading recently. Being HH, it wasn't dwarves and saber-tooths, it
> was corpsmen of the space marines and their genetically-modified mutant
> camel steeds, which had an annoying habit of biting. Their arms off!
Sorry to dredge up an old topic, but I was basically raking my brains (on
and off) all this time, trying to recall the name of that story. I
finally got it -- "Space Rats of the CCC". Gee, should I be proud, or
what? :-D
Igor
P.S. A great story, BTW.
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