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: Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:21:32 -0700 Organization: Dis One Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <10oab0q$39n4f$6@dont-email.me> <10ocqti$4fas$3@dont-email.me> <10od9kg$9cih$1@dont-email.me> <10odne1$d647$1@dont-email.me> <10odnsi$d647$2@dont-email.me> <10odop7$djnv$1@dont-email.me> <10odsq2$er59$1@dont-email.me> <1772787512-12588@newsgrouper.org> <10oeeru$kih0$1@dont-email.me> <10oeiea$lo5g$2@dont-email.me> <6our7mxi9i.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10oh35t$1g6or$1@dont-email.me> <10oh7fu$1h8of$2@dont-email.me> <10ohb72$1gu9r$22@dont-email.me> <10ohkv8$1mpnh$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: Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:21:42 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0c7e43ad831d4a0b1b109a84db7faab0"; logging-data="2986280"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19lB3AT/6SPdjHBZAzyFToWgsfnaPDeCqg=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:I3qpS3W+bp7gL4zekUSyovTCUSI= X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00-gb X-ICQ: 543516788 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82684 alt.usage.english:1138970 Saturday, rbowman observed: > On Sat, 7 Mar 2026 08:49:42 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > >> Even younger I lived on farms in the countryside and mail was directed >> to route (rout) #Whatever. I use "whatever" because I was very young >> and do not recall the numbers assigned but something like Rural Route >> #2. > > I remember RFD (Rural Free Delivery) in that context. ISTR a Saturday morning show for Adults called "RFD", and not a cartoon. As a kid, I didn't watch it enough to remember if was news, views, or how-tos. Probably came on in the hour before cartoons, which might explain why I knew about it. (I currently sleep through Saturday morning cartoons ... I turned into a night owl.) US TV, U C /dps -- "This is all very fine, but let us not be carried away be excitement, but ask calmly, how does this person feel about in in his cooler moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on top of him?" _Roughing It_, Mark Twain.