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| From | "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc, alt.usage.english |
| Subject | Re: GNU |
| Date | 2026-04-02 23:56 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <5953amx0m.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink) |
| References | (21 earlier) <10qh3m7$3iibq$4@dont-email.me> <n32ostFhr5bU9@mid.individual.net> <10qj3i1$63en$12@dont-email.me> <6540amxagd.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10qk61b$kajl$2@dont-email.me> |
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On 2026-04-02 00:25, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > On 4/1/26 11:18, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2026-04-01 14:37, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> On 31/03/2026 21:25, rbowman wrote: >>>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:27:19 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> >>>>> Aha bliss,. I think you would really enjoy Rudyard Kipling's 'Stalky & >>>>> Co' >>>>> - an account of his childhood in a British Public School. >>>> >>>> I reread that several times, as well as Kim. In retrospect some of the >>>> behavior verged on what CS Lewis wrote about 'public' schools. >>> >>> I gave up on CS Lewis as being to obviously peddling God. >>> >>> But Kipling may have stretched the truth a bit, Mark Twain style, but >>> the image was accurate, as was Mark's. >>> >>> Life in those schools was tough. >>> >>> I've never forgotten my shock on reading Huckleberry Finn at the >>> following lines. >>> >>> "We blowed a cylinder head" >>> "Goodness gracious. Was anybody hurt?" >>> "No m'. Killed a nigger" >>> >>> That encapsulated entirely what the South believed and thought about >>> race back in the day. >> >> I don't remember that paragraph, but I read it looong ago. Maybe my >> book had been edited. >> >> What did they blow? I don't get it. >> > > Actually in HF it would have been a steam engine that lost its > cylinder head and the black man would have been a coal shovler or > an oiler which were both dangerous jobs. You will have to look > up on the net old steam engines and see how they were constructed > to better understand this. I immediately thought of IC engines. > Sorry about that but Steam was going out of style before I hatched. > Right :-) -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;
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