From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <TUHS@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 12:02:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_QS=Nno-xxkT+U3CHB6yn0PKt-uimBrOVRLo+HPuFTHBQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 8:06 PM Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
Pretty sure I would pass ALL the members of the list on the street and fail
> to recognize them. Yes, even the famous ones.
>
I can pass anyone on the street and fail to recognize them (google
"prosopagnosia" or "face blindness").
> Also, "Fight Club" is not a crap movie and I will fight you over that.
>
The first rule of Fish Club is that whales are not fish.
The second rule of Fish Club is that lungfish are not fish either.
The first rule of Linguist Club is to explain who belongs to Linguist Club.
The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
Sir, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?
--George Bernard Shaw,
to a man booing at the opening of _Arms and the Man_
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-01 3:13 Norman Wilson
2020-12-02 0:31 ` George Michaelson
2020-12-02 1:06 ` Adam Thornton
2020-12-02 17:02 ` John Cowan [this message]
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2020-12-03 20:31 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-03 20:37 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-03 20:43 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-03 20:56 ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-12-03 21:01 ` Ben Walton
2020-12-03 21:12 ` Clem Cole
2020-12-04 0:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-04 0:43 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-04 0:48 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-04 1:25 ` Dan Cross
2020-12-04 9:27 ` arnold
2020-12-04 11:33 ` Andy Kosela
2020-12-04 13:14 ` Tyler Adams
2020-12-04 13:17 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-04 13:22 ` Tyler Adams
2020-12-04 13:25 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-04 0:45 ` George Michaelson
2020-12-04 1:10 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-04 1:17 ` George Michaelson
2020-12-03 20:51 ` M Douglas McIlroy
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2020-12-01 0:00 ` Joachim via TUHS
2020-12-01 0:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01 2:23 ` Larry McVoy
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2020-11-30 3:10 Joachim via TUHS
2020-11-30 8:30 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-11-30 13:36 ` Brantley Coile
2020-11-30 15:12 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-11-30 15:52 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 16:25 ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-11-30 16:41 ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:37 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-30 16:54 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 18:13 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-11-30 18:25 ` John Cowan
2020-11-30 18:37 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 20:11 ` arnold
2020-11-30 21:49 ` Will Senn
2020-12-01 2:55 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-30 18:46 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-12-01 3:59 ` jason-tuhs
2020-12-01 4:03 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-12-01 9:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-12-01 15:09 ` Jim Capp
2020-12-01 15:35 ` Toby Thain
2020-12-01 15:38 ` arnold
2020-12-01 16:24 ` Warner Losh
2020-12-01 16:39 ` arnold
2020-12-01 20:13 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-02 7:08 ` arnold
2020-12-02 7:29 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-01 20:20 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-12-01 20:39 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-01 21:24 ` Dan Cross
2020-12-01 23:44 ` John Cowan
2020-12-12 19:50 ` scj
2020-12-01 16:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-01 20:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01 20:49 ` John Cowan
2020-12-01 16:04 ` Tyler Adams
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