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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux UFS support and FreeBSD
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From: Inaky Perez Gonzalez <inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:44:52 +0100
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On 21 Dec 1996 tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
>>: Dec 19 04:52:41 nostromo kernel: ufs_read_super: fucking Sun blows me
>3) Unix is replete with innunendo. For example, there is a humorous piece
>that lists a bunch of jokes that you can play, for example typing "make love"
>produces the response "don't know how to make love" There are others more
>"offensive" than that, a number of error messages were deliberately constructed
>to produce humorous sexual comments in response to phrases typed into them.
>After all, why do you think that the "finger" command is named "finger?"
>Writing about how your going to finger someone is an obvious play on words
>that is certainly going to be offensive to the non-initiated.
I agree, fully ... and this is my $0.5 contribution to your
comment: the offendee should read the celibacy(1), condom(1) and
sex(6) man pages that come with the Emacs distributions (hosted
under /usr/{lib,share}/emacs/19.??/etc. Those where the greatest
jokes I've ever readen!
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