RE: [TCLUG:10862] [fwd] Dr. Who/Linux humor

["Carl Patten" <cpatte@trimodalinc.com>]

OMGTFH!!!!!!

You just made my day.  Thanks for forwarding this one.  I used to read
a.h.b-o-u all the time, maybe it's time to start up again!

Thanks,

--
Carl Patten


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [mailto:carls@agritech.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 9:06 AM
> To: Linux@scalug.org; tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: [TCLUG:10862] [fwd] Dr. Who/Linux humor
>
>
>         another tidbit of Linux humor from alt.humor.best-of-usenet....
>
> Carl
> ***********
> On 17 Nov 1999 23:50:26 GMT, in alt.humor.best-of-usenet Tim Izod
> <tim@timizod.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: Successful de-fenestration.
> From: Iain Georgeson <iain@kremlinux.demon.co.uk>
> Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux
>
> In article <382DBD26.431887B@virgin.net>, Paul Grayson
> <paul.grayson@virgin.net> writes
> >My PC is now 100% defenestrated, and better off for it. (Those of you
> >who don't know what that means, look it up in a dictionary!).
>
> That would be the New Hackers' Dictionary, presumably. (Notwithstanding
> the descending hordes of pedants).
>
> I was reading that august document the other day, and the entry on
> 'defenestration' caused a disturbing mental image to arise in my mind:
>
> Picture everyone's favourite penguin, rolling on casters unsteadily down
> a corridor straight out of the BBC's Spaceship Props department circa
> 1985. Complete the vision with a plunger stuck to Tux's forehead, and a
> BBC Model B's speech synth moaning 'Defenestrate! Defenestrate!".
>
> *shudder*
>
>         Iain KWHBHTL.
>
>
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