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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Xavier Neys [mailto:neysx@g.o] |
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> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:23 AM |
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> To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage |
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> Larry asked me not to top-post... |
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> Josh Saddler wrote: |
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> > In fact, I'd say it's _udderly_ disturbing. |
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> > |
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> > . . . *vanishes* |
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> > |
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> > Anyway, yes, our mascot has been along for the ride longer |
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> than most |
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> > of us have been on the project. I'd like to see him stick around. |
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> > |
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> > Thomas Cort wrote: |
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> >>> On Sat, 06 May 2006 21:22:56 -0700 |
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> >>> Joshua Jackson <tsunam@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>> |
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> >>>> I've noticed a disturbing trend with the website |
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> redesign. Larry is |
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> >>>> disappearing from the site. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> That is utterly disturbing! I too enjoy Larry the cow, |
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> and would like to keep him around and improve his visibility |
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> on the site. I think he makes a nice mascot for Gentoo. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> ~tcort |
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> The rumour has it that an ALF activist decided to free Larry |
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> because it had to be as free as our code. |
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> The truth is I found it alone in a pasture, it had lost its |
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> appetite and felt very lonely. It begged of me to be allowed |
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> back into Gentoo Land and asked me what it had done wrong to |
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> be cast away like that. My friends, it was in tears, and I |
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> joined it, I could not help it. |
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> I decided to take it back home. |
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> While we walked back, it mentioned it liked the text around |
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> it very much, even though it can't read English very well. |
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> Its language only has one vowel, the o, mostly used in pairs. |
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> It wondered whether the Council should take care of this nice |
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> aboot.xml page as well as the Social Contract and the Philosophy. |
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> It also wondered why it had been given a male name because |
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> Larry is a she. |
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> I told her I didn't know the answer and she was not the only |
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> case in Gentoo Land. |
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> Larry is now resting in her stable and will be entertaining |
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> you as soon as she has digested her first meal in more than a week. |
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That's really wonderful, Xavier! |
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-achumakov |
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