From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski 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 13:48:04 +0200 Message-ID: <877fqwhsln.fsf@mbork.pl> 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 1434973718 2727 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2015 11:48:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:48:38 +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 13:48:38 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 1Z70DM-0000K2-Q4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:48:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39470 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z70DL-0004YY-UA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 07:48:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58871) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z70D8-0004YE-Ou for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 07:48:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z70D4-0006rJ-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 07:48:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:58875) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z70D4-0006r7-I3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 07:48:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80736F2008 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:48:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 61srBgVjxno8 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:48:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (ipz217.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [79.190.154.217]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4E0BA6F2002 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:48:13 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <87fv5kve43.fsf@debian.uxu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 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:105085 Archived-At: On 2015-06-22, at 01:25, Emanuel Berg wrote: > How about: When do you drink your last milk in Poland? > ... The day the cow sit down. > > *ouch* Meh. > Or: What do Polish women get after they marry, which > is long and often difficult to handle? ... > A family name. > > XHA XHA XHA XHA! This one is a bit better (mainly because of the language component). 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.";-)) > If you read the autobio of Steve Wozniak, which > I think is this: > > @book{iwoz, > title = {iWoz}, > author = {Steve Wozniak}, > publisher = {Norton \& Company}, > year = 2006, > ISBN = 0393061434 > } > > you get many such jokes. 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!!! Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University