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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Whew!
Date: 02 Aug 1996 21:55:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w8safwd1ryl.fsf@hrym.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: elf@ee.ryerson.ca's message of Fri, 2 Aug 1996 15:35:59 -0400

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> Da tovarich!  How about sort of reversing the R and N, to get a
> cyrillic look?

elf@ee.ryerson.ca (luis fernandes) writes:

> Hmm, that's pretty good... except I would suggest Cyrillic text; i.e.
> the "R" would be backwards, &c.

Great minds sometimes think in somewhat similar fashions.  :-)

Giving "Red Gnus" a cyrillic look sounds quite fun.  I'll have a look
at the cyrillic fonts here...

>     > around the (red) Gnus logo we could have the Gnus motto:  "In a cloud
>     > bones of steel * Red Gnus * "  
> 
> Waitaminit, I don't remember a vote as to what the Gnus motto was
> going to be; this sounds a bit undemocratic and, dare I say it,
> Communistic...

Hey!  You calling me undemocratic?  You know I have instituted laws
that makes that illegal, don't you?  Shame on you!

By the way, the motto is stolen from the poem "The Bridge" by Charles
Reznikoff.  In fact, it's the poem in its entirety.  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen


  reply	other threads:[~1996-08-02 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-07-15 19:46 Whew! Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-08-01 16:46 ` Whew! Albrecht Kadlec
1996-08-01 20:56   ` Whew! Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-08-02  1:14     ` Whew! luis fernandes
1996-08-02 17:50       ` Whew! Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-08-02 19:35         ` Whew! luis fernandes
1996-08-02 19:55           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1996-08-02 19:47         ` Whew! Steinar Bang
1996-08-02  4:44     ` Whew! Ed Donovan

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