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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] power pc port
Date: Tue,  5 Aug 2003 07:24:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308050720480.17257-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c696dd9a639aeba62d4d157e1f835e2@hamnavoe.com>

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Richard Miller wrote:

> Aside: do our international readers know what "Chinese whispers" are?
>

on the other side of the iron curtain (where the chinese were at the time
too!) it was known as 'broken telephone'. we used to play it in
kindergarden. then again, we used to sing songs about how bad atomic bombs
are and how the Party is our mother (and the russian Party was the mother in
law, i guess :)

http://www.wordreference.com/english/definition.asp?en=Chinese+whispers

what remains unknown is the connotation -- good or bad?

andrey



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-05 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-29 15:03 David Presotto
2003-07-29 16:34 ` David Presotto
2003-07-30  8:25   ` plan9
2003-08-01  9:02   ` plan9
2003-08-01 13:39     ` Sape Mullender
2003-08-01 19:43       ` Richard Miller
2003-08-04  8:59         ` plan9
2003-08-04  9:25           ` Charles Forsyth
2003-08-04 14:18           ` ron minnich
2003-08-05 10:22             ` Richard Miller
2003-08-05 12:05               ` northern snowfall
2003-08-05 12:53               ` Dan Cross
2003-08-05 13:19                 ` C H Forsyth
2003-08-05 14:13                 ` northern snowfall
2003-08-05 14:16                   ` northern snowfall
2003-08-06  2:55                 ` boyd, rounin
2003-08-05 13:24               ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2003-08-05 13:56                 ` Dan Cross
2003-08-05 14:41                   ` Philippe Anel
2003-08-06  1:03                   ` okamoto
2003-08-05 14:31                 ` northern snowfall
2003-08-05 15:25                 ` a
2003-08-06 18:23               ` [9fans] plan9 on Ati Mobility M/M1, HP Omnibook 6000 FODEMESI Gergely
2003-08-01 17:50     ` [9fans] power pc port David Presotto
2003-08-01 18:04       ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-08-04  8:59         ` plan9
2003-08-04  9:26           ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-08-06  9:02             ` plan9
2003-08-04  9:31           ` Charles Forsyth
2003-08-04 14:19             ` ron minnich
2003-08-04 14:44               ` David Presotto
2003-08-04 14:50                 ` Jack Johnson
2003-08-04 14:42             ` Jack Johnson
2003-08-07 18:06               ` C H Forsyth
2003-08-02  7:44     ` Charles Forsyth

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