Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

[Xavier Neys]

Larry asked me not to top-post...

Josh Saddler wrote:
> In fact, I'd say it's _udderly_ disturbing.
>
> . . . *vanishes*
>
> Anyway, yes, our mascot has been along for the ride longer than most of us have
> been on the project. I'd like to see him stick around.
>
> Thomas Cort wrote:
>>> On Sat, 06 May 2006 21:22:56 -0700
>>> Joshua Jackson <tsunam@g.o> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've noticed a disturbing trend with the website redesign. Larry is
>>>> disappearing from the site.
>>>
>>> That is utterly disturbing! I too enjoy Larry the cow, and would like to keep him around and improve his visibility on the site. I think he makes a nice mascot for Gentoo.
>>>
>>> ~tcort

The rumour has it that an ALF activist decided to free Larry because it had to
be as free as our code.
The truth is I found it alone in a pasture, it had lost its appetite and felt
very lonely. It begged of me to be allowed back into Gentoo Land and asked me
what it had done wrong to be cast away like that. My friends, it was in tears,
and I joined it, I could not help it.
I decided to take it back home.
While we walked back, it mentioned it liked the text around it very much, even
though it can't read English very well. Its language only has one vowel, the
o, mostly used in pairs. It wondered whether the Council should take care of
this nice aboot.xml page as well as the Social Contract and the Philosophy.
It also wondered why it had been given a male name because Larry is a she.
I told her I didn't know the answer and she was not the only case in Gentoo Land.
Larry is now resting in her stable and will be entertaining you as soon as she
has digested her first meal in more than a week.


Welcome back, Larry!
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