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Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:56:03 -0400
- Subject: Re: offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:59:56AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Christopher Faylor
>>Sent: 19 April 2005 02:28
>
>>On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:49:40AM +0530, NNK_ml wrote:
>>>Am doing a little looking-into in to the purpose of the special folders
>>>in Linux though...
>>
>>Just a bit of trivia: did you know that a porpoise was a mammal?
>>
>>I know! I thought they were related to whales! I think science is fun!
>
>Whales are just overgrown hippopotamuses. Um. Hippopotami. Hippos,
>goddamit. Anyway they're just big ones.
Actually, all kidding aside, this is correct, right? They think that whales
and hippos came from a common ancestor, don't they?
Also, apparently "death by hippo" is fairly common. They are aggressive
beasts.
cgf