Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:03:44 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <5ccda750-4f6b-e297-020c-d0a8c5da62a1@example.net> References: <655acbf6-05e5-69ff-8a44-9f7075aafa2e@example.net> <90d96981-698c-2175-9055-346f91e9fe8d@example.net> <8Xednfe-7ZccxzT6nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@earthlink.com> <5a97158d-86f1-8e82-12a6-1a8e042e1d4c@example.net> <5d8b3c51-e7db-2661-384c-3ded09f1255d@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3790953"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:65420 comp.os.linux.advocacy:685682 On Tue, 11 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:03:31 +0100, D wrote: > > >> Really? I thought it was only appropriate for sweden, but there you go. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvang,_California > > Okay, so its Danish. Close enough. Easy! Switch the cinnamon rolls for danish! ;) >>> Dallas - bourbon, strippers and bootleg Cuban cigars >> >> This is the truth! I once met a salesman from Dallas and he said that >> his best customer always called him to discuss business in some kind of >> stripping place. >> >> He would always sigh, grab fistfuls of one dollar bills, and sit there >> feeding his customer 1 dollar bills while some woman was dancing in >> front of him, not appreciating it much. >> >> But it would always work, and he would always come away from those >> meetings with a signed contract in hand. =) > > That is how business was conducted in the first few companies I worked > for. It wasn't always a strip joint although the VP of the first company > did have a thing for strippers, but most of the real work was done in > bars, sometimes with the system design done on a napkins. Ahh... those were better times. ;) But with complicated system designs, how did you join several 100s of napkins together? Or was one napkin the constraint put on all the designs? > There were snags. In the middle of a large project one of the client's > people came to view the progress. His reputation preceded him. Straight > arrow, didn't drink, didn't chew, and didn't go with girls who do. The > sales department had a melt down. "What the hell are we going to do with > him?" > > Travel in those circles and you get the impression the country is run by > high functioning alcoholics. > >