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Re: proftpd not run, and is gcc4 for cygwin coming?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: "'or something.'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:54:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: proftpd not run, and is gcc4 for cygwin coming?
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On Feb 22 16:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 22 15:42, Dave Korn wrote:
> > As far as I can see, fish-teaching exercises are highly overrated.
> >
> > I once spent an entire month trying to teach Shakespeare to a school of
> > guppies. By then end of it I was soaking wet, but not even one of them had
> > mastered the "To be or not to be..." soliloquy from Hamlet.
> >
> > That's the last time I try to teach a man to fish ...
> >
> > ... don't suppose they'd do any better with female authors either, though.
>
> Maybe you tried the wrong literature. You know how important the
> right entry is to stay interested. Perhaps some more fishy story
> like Hemingway's "The old man and the sea" or Melville's "Moby Dick"
> would have attracted them.
...or maybe a movie like "A fish called Wanda".
Corinna