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Re: proftpd not run, and is gcc4 for cygwin coming?
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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".
Yeah, that would be a fish's equivalent of a horror flick... :-D
Igor
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