Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: 2 Apr 2026 05:34:26 GMT Lines: 47 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net RlKMn0ef7q/54Q7pwcbuwAY/XHimhg1pY5LsSSW6P6xgRVffRK Cancel-Lock: sha1:r9uzHvSBeIRFwO8ZUyMQQ1MVC+s= sha256:qPeU5CUeo0jaQQ0sk2hltOHwm14O1zBaMCw8y4h3B8s= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85124 alt.usage.english:1142106 On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 15:25:47 -0700, 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. Huckleberry and Nigger Jim on motorcycles would have been an interesting story. I always liked that one better than Tom Sawyer