<erich> this wasn't chicken.
-- in #debian-devel
%
+I was attacked by dselect as a small child and have since avoided
+debian.
+ -- Andrew Morton
+%
+* joeyh installs debian using only his big toe, for a change of pace
+ -- in #debian-boot
+%
+* liiwi takes the whip and eyes pasc
+< pasc> ohh!!! kinky!
+< pasc> how convenient, I was just about to call in sick at work ;-)
+ -- in #debian-devel
+%
+<dark> Turns out that grep returns error code 1 when there are no matches.
+ I KNEW that. Why did it take me half an hour?
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+It's simply unbelievable how much energy and creativity people have
+invested into creating contradictory, bogus and stupid licenses...
+ -- - Sven Rudolph about licences in debian/non-free.
+%
+<Overfiend> partycle: I seriously do need a vacation from this
+ package. I actually had a DREAM about introducing a
+ stupid new bug into xbase-preinst last night. That's a
+ Bad Sign.
+ -- Seen on #Debian shortly before the release of Debian 2.0
+%
+<dark> Looks like the channel is back to normal :)
+<jim> You mean it's not scrolling faster than anyone can read? :)
+ -- Seen on #Debian after the release of Debian 2.0
+%
+Just to expand on what Ross said, it is undoubtedly too much to expect
+of any distribution that it automatically detect whether or not the
+person installing it can read simple English directions, and if he
+can't, proceed without his input. That way lies madness.
+ -- Shawn McMahon on debian-curiosa@l.d.o
+%
+<zedboy> dackel: in general the *only* way to use a computer program
+ is to execute it. have you *ever* known a system utility whose
+ documentation recommended either deleting it, or throwing it
+ at a farm animal?
+<dackel> zedboy: Ummm... yes
+<zedboy> dackel: install the manpages package. it should be there
+ already tho.
+<zedboy> dackel: example of such a bovine utility?
+* greycat wants a video of dackel throwing /usr/bin/file at a cow
+%
+<elmo> Joy: thanks, joy
+<doogie> elmo: that's redundant, elmo
+<elmo> doogie: go play in traffic
+<doogie> ah, the elmo we know and love
+%
+<doogie> joy/elmo: why can't the same ip be used? was this fire so
+ great that it burned the ip address?
+%
+<donnerjack> Nothing says "I enjoy living with you" like the gift of
+ 3rd degree burns...
+<Mephron> except, of course, turning his bed into a trebuchet.
+<Ladegard> That much effort must mean some sort of affection.
+%
+<Flimsy> Anyone here knowledgable in matters of water fowl? If you
+ walk through a park, and a goose starts following you... and
+ ends up following you more than half a mile until you reach
+ your car... at 11pm. Is the goose rabid or something?
+%
+<wolfgang> the problem with the 'go find a real girl' admonition is
+ that so few of them actually have naked transformation
+ sequences
+<reality> Dude, my girlfriend changes like four times a day
+%
+<Z-Gryphon> If Unicron had a tech spec card, his motto would be "That
+ which does not become part of the One shall become Void."
+<Z-Gryphon> which is sort of a grand-scale, apocalyptic version of "I
+ am what I eat." :)
+%
+<liiwi> udp - universal dropping of an pigeon
+%
+<lilo> I've always wanted to have a web site with a big picture of a carrot on
+it
+%
+<bdale> Bdale is a contraction of Barksdale.
+<Lo-lan-do> Hm. It's definItely not something I'll ever remember.
+<Lo-lan-do> Mind if I call you Wensleydale instead?
+%
+<luca> and those that say: fibre cables have a minimum bend radius and
+ pull tension? bah! *yank*
+<Culus> IT'S FIBER YOU FREAKS :P
+<luca> culus, you hoser, it's fibre. am I gonna have to come over the
+ mountains and give you a wedgie?
+%
+<maswan> Joy: Lets fork cat! :)
+<maswan> Joy: imagine a big pitchfork and a dead kitten on top of
+ it.. with blood running down..
+%
+<mjg59> Damnit. I've got a month to write a paper. This involves
+ actually writing the chunks of code I'm going to be talking
+ about.
+<asuffield> find a bunch of students and give it to them as an exercise
+<mjg59> asuffield: I'm surrounded by a bunch of students. Last time I
+ let them touch code, I came back and found they'd rewritten
+ all the C++ code in C and all the C code in C++
+<asuffield> mwahaha
+<mjg59> AND BROKE THE BUILD
+%
+<moshez> what I like about Manoj is his desire for simple and small
+ solutions. like EMACS. or dvt.
+<Manoj> well, dvt was _supposed_ to be simple
+<Manoj> it only took 2 weeks to write
+<moshez> Manoj: It requires a *diagram* to explain what each part does.
+%
+<moshez> ok, I will not marry Jo-Con-El's cow.
+%
+<Overfiend> penis jokes are okay in mixed company. VMS is NOT!!!
+%
+<Overfiend> ltd: Fine, go through life just pointing and grunting at
+ what you mean. Works for Mac users.
+%
+revision 1.17.2.7
+date: 2001/05/31 21:32:44; author: branden; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1
+ARRRRGH!! GOT THE G** D*** SENSE OF A F******* TEST BACKWARDS!
+%
+<Overfiend_> Overfiend's First Law of Package Quality: If the
+ maintainer likes to spell part or all of his name in
+ CAPS, the package will suck.
+%
+<Overfiend_> Intel. Bringing you the cutting-edge technology of 1979
+ for 22 years now.
+%
+<Overfiend> the key to proper French pronunciation is to pull the
+ corners of your mouth down as far as they can possibly go,
+ and then groan like you're constipated
+<Overfiend> you'll really nail the vowel sounds that way
+%
+<-- Overfiend has quit ("venturing forth to destroy strange new
+ worlds, and eat life and new civilizations")
+%
+<Overfiend> the kind of landscape that laughs at "AWD" vehicles and
+ sends them tumbling into ravines
+%
+<Overfiend> Joy: Hey, I'm an asshole. Assholes emit odious gas.
+ That's what we do.
+%
+<Overfiend> as aj would say, waiting always works
+<Overfiend> either what you want happens, or you die and cannot be
+ perturbed anymore
+<Overfiend> the trouble with this philosophy is that aj sincerely
+ believes it
+%
+* doogie is turning into manoj
+<Overfiend> doogie: eventually, we all turn into Manoj
+<Overfiend> Manoj is Debian's iron
+<Overfiend> ultimately, we all decay to Manoj
+%
+<Overfiend> but look at the French. You could spell every word in
+ their language phonetically using only about 6 letters
+<Overfiend> 4 consonants and 2 vowels
+<Overfiend> c, f, r, l. And the vowels? Well, one is the sound you
+ make when you have constipation; the other when you have
+ diarrhea
+<Overfiend> what do you expect from that diet of snails and frogs?
+%
+X-Manoj-Position-Advisory: Please note that Manoj Srivastava likely doubts
+ any facts posited and opposes any conclusions reached in this message.
+
+ -- Seen in the headers of a mail from Branden Robinson
+%
+<sangr> home is where the highest bandwidth is
+%
+<sangr> no more perl ... it's depressing ...
+<sangr> i think perl and i need some time from each other
+<sangr> we made beautiful music together about a year ago ...
+<sangr> but times have change, we changed ..
+%
+<StevenK> I can usually supress the feelings that tell me to crash
+ tackle a girl into the bushes
+%
+<wiggy> bwah, vodka in my mouse
+%
+<wiggy> in a stunning new move I actually tested this upload
+%
+<wiggyWork> 3990 N Apr 15 Cute Girlfriend ( 45) Erotic Amateur Girlfriends
+<wiggyWork> I wasn't aware you had professional girlfriends as well
+%
+However, my enthusiasm for the modular tree is tempered by some parts of
+it not existing.
+ -- Daniel Stone on debian-{x,devel}, commenting on the
+ future of X
+%
+Does she think we just want to sit around painting debian swirls on our
+toenails?
+ -- Erinn Clark, referring to the Debian-women project
+%
+modconf (0.2.37) stable unstable; urgency=medium
+ [...]
+ * Eduard Bloch:
+ - fixed Makefile broken Marcin Owsiany a while ago. The default manpage
+ has been overwritten with the polish translation. I still wonder why
+ nobody noticed this before. Closes: #117474
+ [...]
+ -- Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:53:27 +0100
+%
+<|ryan|> I don't use deb
+<netgod> u poor man
+<Disconnect> netgod: heh
+<Kingsqueak> apt-get install task-p0rn
+%
+(It is an old Debian tradition to leave at least twice a year ...)
+ -- Sven Rudolph
+%
+<Joey> gorgo: *lol*
+<gorgo> joey: what's so funny? :)
+<Culus> shh, joey is losing all sanity from lack of sleep
+<Culus> 'yes joey, very funny'
+<Culus> Humor him :>
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+* SynrG notes that the number of configuration questions to answer in sendmail
+ is NON-TRIVIAL
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+* JHM wonders what Joey did to earn "I'd just like to say, for the record,
+ that Joey rules."
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+Do people like check the Debian website every 5 minutes to check it hasn't
+morphed into another one? Not that I'm one to talk, but some people seriously
+need to get a life.
+ -- james on #Debian
+%
+* james would be more impressed if netgod's magic powers could stop the
+ splits in the first place...
+* netgod notes debian developers are notoriously hard to impress
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+ * In anticipation of 2.10.02 release, updated to patchlevel
+ +ircu2.10.01+.config6-7.config7-8.lgline3.iwho.limit.glibc.motdcache2.
+ trace.whois1-2.config8-9.statsw.sprintf2-3.msgtree2.memleak1-2+.
+ msgtree2-3.gline8-9.gline9-10.invite2.rbr.stats.numclients.
+ whisper.whisper1-2.stats1-2.nokick1-2.chroot.config9-11.snomask7-8.
+ limi+t1-3.userip1-3.userip3-4.config11-12.config12-13.umode2-3.
+ akillsbt.who4-5.kn.kn1-2.freebsdcore2.msgtree3-5.y2k.glibc1-2.
+ rmfunc.msgf+lags2.who5-6.nickchange2.glibc2-3.modeless3
+ -- From the annoucement of ircd 2.10.01-3 for Debian GNU/Linux
+%
+* Joey should not write changelog entries at 5:30am
+<Joey> * DFSC Free cgi library
+<Joey> What's that? DFSC?
+<jim> Debian Free Software mroooooCows
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+<james> abuse me. I'm so lame I sent a bug report to debian-devel-changes
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+<dark> eat Depends: cook | eat-out.
+ But eat-out is non-free so that's out.
+ And cook Recommends: clean-pans.
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+You will not censor me through bug terrorism.
+ -- James Troup
+%
+<doogie> Thinking is dangerous. It leads to ideas.
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+<james> Are we going to make an emacs out of apt?
+ APT - Debian in a program. It even does your laundry
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+Debian is like Suse with yast turned off, just better. :)
+ -- Goswin Brederlow
+%
+Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>:
+ After all, the gzip package is called `gzip', not `libz-bin'...
+
+James Troup <troup@debian.org>:
+ Uh, probably because the gzip binary doesn't come from the
+ non-existent libz package or the existent zlib package.
+ -- debian-bugs-dist
+%
+<jim> Lemme make sure I'm not wasting time here... bcwhite will remove
+ pkgs that havent been fixed that have outstanding bugs of severity
+ "important". True or false?
+<JHM> jim: "important" or higher. True.
+<jim> Then we're about to lose ftp.debian.org and dpkg :)
+* netgod will miss dpkg -- it was occasionally useful
+<Joey> We still have rpm....
+ -- Seen on #Debian
+%
+Being overloaded is the sign of a true Debian maintainer.
+ -- JHM on #Debian
+%
+I am amazed that no-one's based a commercial distribution on Debian
+yet - it is by far the most solid UNIX-like OS I've ever installed,
+and I've played with HP/UX, Solaris, FreeBSD, BSDi, and SCO (not to
+mention OS/2, Novell, Win95/NT)
+ -- Nathan E. Norman
+%
+> <magical +3 sigh of hyperbole deflection>
+
+The branden dodges your magical sigh. The branden attacks you with a
+slew of words! The branden misses!
+
+ -- Henning Makholm in <yahsmr7dk9k.fsf@pc-043.diku.dk>
+%
+I don't think 'It's better than hurling yourself into a meat grinder'
+is a good rationale for doing something.
+ -- Andrew Suffield in
+ <20030905221055.GA22354@doc.ic.ac.uk> on debian-devel
+%
+< Overfiend> whew.
+< Overfiend> I really need to get some sleep.
+< Overfiend> but it sure was fun talking guitars, politics, and lesbians.
+%
+Whoever asked if the debian organization was dead isn't reading
+debian-devel. 66 messages in one day, and it's not over. I find it
+difficult to keep up.
+ -- Bruce Perens
+%
+< asuffield> fibre in the US is such a joke. in the civilized parts of
+ the world, DSL *starts* at the speeds where US fibre lets off
+< joshk> asuffield: australia is a nation full of savages?
+< asuffield> joshk: they've got about one 9600 modem between the whole
+ damn country
+ -- in #debian-devel
+%
+< nobse> bleh... last night I had a dream... someone NMU'ed vim...
+ nightmare
+ -- in #debian-devel
+%
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