Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Glenn English
Hey, will you ununto/god/God guys please cut it out. This list has so much traffic already I can barely scan it as fast as it comes in. I've got to get breakfast sometime this morning... -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:52:34PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote: > The University of Northern Colorado [UNC] intramural basketball team is named > the Fighting Whities (aka the Fighting Whites That's intramural. There's a lot of ridiculous intramural names. It don't mean a whole lot. The official ma

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 27 December 2004 8:15 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Yeah, I do. I still think it was stupid. Just name their new baseball > team the Washington Honky's and call it even. 8:o) The University of Northern Colorado [UNC] intramural basketball team is named the Fighting Whities (aka the F

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 18:14 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 27 December 2004 03:25 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that > > no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would > > name a product "Apache". > > OK, how

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 27 20:16 -0600]: > Heath makes a HAM radio model > called Apache. Well, made. Past tense, sadly. RIP Heathkit. They also used Commanche and other American Indian tribal names as well as the generic Warrior. - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 04:09 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Does anyone remember a few years back (or maybe more than a few) > when it was thought the Washington Redskins would have to change > their name because of the political incorrectness of it? Yeah, I do. I still think it was stupid. J

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 03:25 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that > no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would > name a product "Apache". OK, how much is that bet for? Boeing (and before that, McDonnell-Douglas) ma

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
cfk wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 15:37, René Seindal wrote: Ron Johnson wrote (28-12-2004 00:25): You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would name a product "Apache". There's the Apache attack helicopter,

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread cfk
On Monday 27 December 2004 15:37, René Seindal wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote (28-12-2004 00:25): > > You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that > > no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would > > name a product "Apache". > > There's the Apache attack helic

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 00:37 +0100, René Seindal wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote (28-12-2004 00:25): > > > You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that > > no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would > > name a product "Apache". > > There's the Apache attack

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread René Seindal
Ron Johnson wrote (28-12-2004 00:25): You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would name a product "Apache". There's the Apache attack helicopter, which the producer probably sells to a few select friends of the

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:15 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 27 December 2004 02:51 pm, William Ballard wrote: [snip] > > > One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-) > > Why? Debian didn't pick a boring name. Neither did Apache, and that > name (arguably) isn't politically correct. ab