From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] manual humour (was tunefs -m 5%)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 15:11:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBcGT_8fdrD10Gp_D3DZAWTEMyayGPEW0oEfWmwHoarsxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210309162128.692CF640CB6@lignose.oclsc.org>
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-.TH KILL 1
-.SH NAME
-kill \- terminate a process with extreme prejudice
One of my favorite references.
At least the offensive fortunes still survive in some form?
-Henry
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 11:24, Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
> In the Seventh Edition manual, a joke was added to
> the entry for kill(1). It appears in every following
> Research manual, but seems to have been discarded
> by all modern descendants.
>
> I guess the prejudice against humour in the manual
> is extreme these days.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
>
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-09 16:21 Norman Wilson
2021-03-09 20:11 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2021-03-09 20:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-09 20:36 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-09 22:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-09 22:46 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-09 23:51 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-10 0:01 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-10 0:13 ` Anthony Martin
2021-03-10 18:37 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2021-03-10 19:49 ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-10 20:17 ` Ken Thompson
2021-03-10 20:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-11 3:54 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-11 4:57 ` Will Senn
2021-03-10 2:34 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-03-12 2:48 ` John Cowan
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