From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:01 AM Subject: Re: Easter Eggs
> On 2002-11-11 11:39, "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: "Mike Hogsett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(); > > > > > > I believe this function can be traced back quite a few years to the > > > original Berkeley releases. > > > > I'll bet....Steve Martin's first comedy album was when, > > 1977? > > This is a very old joke. In fact, it was still there when 4.4BSD-Lite > sources were imported: > > $ cd /usr/src/sbin/shutdown > $ cvs -q up -p -r bsd_44_lite shutdown.c | grep gravy > void die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog __P((void)); > die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog(); > die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog() > > :) My point exactly. Given that the source of the joke is/was American comedian Steve Martin, (which may/may not be true) the joke would date to the period 1977-1979, which was prior even to 4.2BSD !! KDK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
