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 19:00:32 -0700 Organization: Dis One Lines: 52 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$12@dont-email.me> <6540amxagd.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10qk61b$kajl$2@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 02:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2283621fe3402b3dea45e209ca39e98c"; logging-data="786151"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Aooq/L0avollRNp6+JxH/IOmPMuUPTew=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:1zVNCoKwH7fg9jRR8Od/atggas0= X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00-gb X-ICQ: 543516788 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85101 alt.usage.english:1142083 Bobbie Sellers noted that: > > 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. Ok, I'll give you credit for the self-correction :-) /dps -- Like the saint, the goddess is associated with wisdom, poetry, healing, protection, blacksmithing, and domesticated animals .... [Wikipedia]