From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>,
Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] manual humour (was tunefs -m 5%)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 15:36:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBedDJ4iDcq6ojSNu9sp2KF1s4-BvOPshA5Sm6bh5oyoyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210309202255.3doIj%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 15:22, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
> Henry Bent wrote in
> <CAEdTPBcGT_8fdrD10Gp_D3DZAWTEMyayGPEW0oEfWmwHoarsxw@mail.gmail.com>:
> |-.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?
>
> People do not have time to read such offensive terms, they bath in
> blood while playing Counter Strike (or another first person
> shooter), having their double quarter pounder at hand.
>
Indeed. I think many people have been teenagers and been that person in
some form or another, but outgrowing a phase of life doesn't mean
forgetting or ignoring it.
A quick grep through the CSRG CDs revealed that the phrase survived in 32v,
as well as in some form of BSDs up to 4.3-Tahoe. mh also had a variant of
it (wow, the irony...).
-Henry
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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
2021-03-09 20:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-09 20:36 ` Henry Bent [this message]
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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