Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Snidely Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:58:54 -0700 Organization: Dis One Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <1rsp93i.i0zwza16xvqdfN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <18a11b491becb6ce$558$2491104$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <1rsq78a.9hgxro1eczx2yN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10qb9df$1inu5$14@dont-email.me> <1rsr591.1ssq8oh1dihjwuN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10qc4dc$1silm$10@dont-email.me> <0cqjskp5oprp9v1utu6t3q8u0urkpnjbvs@4ax.com> <951q9mxo8p.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10qf25l$2tg1l$1@dont-email.me> <1rsta5r.iodu9pkllu2gN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <10qgiih$3aete$16@dont-email.me> <0jdt9mxh26.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10qh2fo$3ie4g$1@dont-email.me> <10qh3m7$3iibq$4@dont-email.me> <10qj3i1$63en$12@dont-email.me> <6540amxagd.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10qk5qq$kajl$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: snidely.too@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:58:58 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2283621fe3402b3dea45e209ca39e98c"; logging-data="784636"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+zaAk+f/l8fUmEMnzF9ywAHmC9v4iRxrc=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:shuVLVxM7Xo6S4rtX3TQ0cmwPqY= X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00-gb X-ICQ: 543516788 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85100 alt.usage.english:1142082 Bobbie Sellers speculated: > > 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. > > Cylinder head on an more primitive Internal Combusiton engine. > But unless it was a separate cylinder on a motorcycle or a > Radial aircraft engine I don't see how it could hit anyone. > > The old saw about the aircraft crash: The dying pilot requests > that they take the engine internals out of his unusable body and > put it all together again. Uh, Huckleberry Finn was never on a vehicle with internal combustion. This would have been a river steamer blowing a high-pressure steam cylinder. Boiler explosions were also a thing back then. /dps -- There's nothing inherently wrong with Big Data. What matters, as it does for Arnold Lund in California or Richard Rothman in Baltimore, are the questions -- old and new, good and bad -- this newest tool lets us ask. (R. Lerhman, CSMonitor.com)