RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

["Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>]

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> -----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!


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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