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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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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-09 20:37 UTC|newest]

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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