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  • From: Tarus Balog <tarus AT opennms.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Google!?? you're kidding, right?
  • Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:56:14 -0400


On Aug 27, 2004, at 4:16 PM, Alan MacHett wrote:

Having not cared about the link till Dave's aneurysm, I didn't realize it
approximated "RTFM". Heh.

OTOH, this is akin to someone asking for directions and you responding "Go
buy a fucking map, buddy!"

In a sense, yes. I just found it to be funny and thought I'd share.

A week or so ago I asked a question on the #trilug IRC channel and one of my friends posted that link. Of course, the reason I asked the question in the first place on that channel was that I thought someone would know the answer right off the top of their head. I rarely bother people without doing the basic legwork, such as a Google search.

So, I'm reading the list today and I came across:

> "I'm not gay but my boyfriend is" shirt
A great slogan if I ever read one. Where can I get a T-shirt like that?

I too thought it was funny, and I found myself going to Google and searching on "I'm not gay but my boyfriend is" and "shirt" and was rewarded with a number of hits.

Rather than post those hits, I remembered the FGI site and posted it instead thinking "Hey, they will go to that site, chuckle, do the same search I did and perhaps find a shirt to buy".

I used a rather obscure and cryptic notation under than link: (grin). It means "I'm just joking around a bit, and I don't mean to be insulting or anything, but you might find this funny but if not please let me apologize in advance".

I realize that the original poster might have been curious as to if there was a local source of said shirt and google wouldn't be much help, but, hey, it was a joke. Having read the list for over two years, it didn't strike me that the average reader would be so ... delicate.

(wide grin)

-T
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