USS Yorktown and Monty Python (was: Re: Society's access to source code)

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From: Donal K. Fellows
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <m290iiar0v.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
David Kastrup  <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes:
>> That's only natural.  Office blocks aren't supposed to sail the high seas!
> 
> It seems you don't know Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" (?, back
> translated from the German title) then.

I *have* seen it, and automatically discount that as evidence as it
was an office block full of pirates (IIRC) and as such could be
expected to not be behaving as it is supposed to.  Being a pirate
gives you an automatic excuse from helping little old ladies across
the road.

There were some brilliant songs in that movie...  <sigh>

Donal ("...and everyone wears a tie!")
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From: fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Subject: USS Yorktown and Monty Python (was: Re: Society's access to source code)
Date: 1998/10/19
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