On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:16:02AM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
>
>uh... I tried to type 'date', but accidentally typed 'ddate'
>
>Instead of getting bash's familiar
>bash: ddate: command not found
>
>I got:
>$ ddate
>Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 1st day of Discord in the YOLD 3167
>
>$ apropos ddate
>ddate (1) - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates
>
>[snip]
>Hmmm, I see ddate is part of the base package, an essential and required utility!
Well, of course. Didn't you realize that the seemingly semirandom Debian
release schedule is really due to the fact that Debian runs on Discordian time?
--
"...the Jedi learned early on what language the universe was programmed
in. Then they took advantage of an accident of language to obscure this
fact from the unwashed. They all affected an inverted lisp.
So, a jedi to be, you the Forth must use." Peter Da Silva in ASR