From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:58:10 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <877fqv1mvx.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87wpywvlyu.fsf@debian.uxu> <87fv5kve43.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435006521 23317 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2015 20:55:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:55:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 22 22:55:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z78kP-0003Ff-1c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:55:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z78kO-0003lk-Ex for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:55:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ksgziQGmkRt3ZXXTswrtD3hRQTg= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212803 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105088 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > I like language-based jokes a lot. (How about this: > a female student of humanities ask her female friend > studying CS about dating prospects at her faculty. > The answer? "The odds are good, but the goods are > odd." ;-)) I understand the pun but not the joke. That must be a white-collar CS joke. Us blue-collar hackers don't understand Haskell, UML, AJAX, microkernels and so on either. As for puns, how about this: There are two tools watching TV. One saw. :) >> Woz had not-that-distant roots in Poland. When he >> was into the phreak scene he put up a telephone >> "service" to which you could call for Polish jokes. >> The thing got so popular eventually the US-Polish >> association called him and asked him to drop it as >> it put their country in bad light. Woz then asked >> if it was OK if he just replaced Poland for Italy. >> That, they said, would be OK. > > And that -- by far -- is the best one in your > email!!! It is always like that. You remember those Donald Duck technicolor from the 30s, 40s, and 50s? I once had a friend who had those on a DVD. When we started to watch first thing was some guy from Disney saying "back then, people weren't as politically aware as now..." (~) blaha blaha. And sure enough, there was plenty of "insensitive" jokes on nationalities and ethnic groups: Native Americans, Asian people, and so on, typically those who are easy to make fun of and make caricatures out of. If anyone is actually offended but such jokes is another matter. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573