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From: Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>
Cc: belanger@truman.edu
Subject: Re: yow.c
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:18:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87psh8hpu5.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86lkrzne2o.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "14 Jun 2006 23:11:11 -0700")


merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> writes:
>
> Jay> As near as I can tell, the Zippyisms are bizarre phrases with random
> Jay> words in all-caps.  I'm sure there's more to it than that, though.
> Jay> What sort of lines belong in yow.lines?
>
> The point is that it's a non-sequitor.

To what?  The lines appear by themselves.

> Imagine your dumbest friend, but then saying something that made you
> chuckle, perhaps because of the emphasis on some part of it that's
> completely obvious to you.

Okay.  

> The easiest way is to let your brain free-wheel:
>
>         When I TIE my SHOES, shouldn't they STAY TIED?

If I DRINK a SODA, it helps to OPEN the BOTTLE.
??

> It helps to read the existing file for a few hundred samples. :)

The current file only contains two samples, which is why I want to
find out how to add them.  (It doesn't yet include your:
    There's NO TELLING where my DOG runs in his SLEEP!)

It was suggested that it'd be unlikely the original lines would be
released under a license suitable for inclusion in Emacs, but would
there be an objection if I wrote and asked?

Jay

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-16 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-04  3:26 yow.c Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-04  8:52 ` yow.c Andreas Schwab
2006-06-04 16:55 ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-09 17:57   ` yow.c Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-10 11:03     ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-10 11:53       ` yow.c David Kastrup
2006-06-11 10:28         ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-11 14:24         ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-11 16:41           ` yow.c Drew Adams
2006-06-12  9:18           ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-10 21:20       ` yow.c Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-11 16:16         ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-13 13:32           ` yow.c Juri Linkov
2006-06-13 14:21             ` yow.c Sam Steingold
2006-06-13 14:51               ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-13 18:13                 ` yow.c Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-13 18:21                   ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-13 18:43                     ` yow.c Eli Zaretskii
2006-06-14 10:03                     ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-13 23:20             ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-15  2:05               ` yow.c Jay Belanger
2006-06-15  6:11                 ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-16 19:18                   ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2006-06-17 17:57                     ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-19 17:36                       ` yow.c Jay Belanger
2006-06-19 23:19                         ` yow.c Richard Stallman
2006-06-20 11:45                           ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-20 12:03                             ` yow.c David Kastrup
2006-06-20 12:30                               ` yow.c Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-17 17:57                     ` yow.c Richard Stallman

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