Chris Seaton wrote:

> I've been on this mailing list for two days and this is the second  
> time I've seen someone arrogantly laughing at someone's very  
> reasonable questions.

Took me some time to get the joke, but it is one, IMO:

> On 12 Mar 2007, at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:22:49 +0100, Luis A. Florit
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>         (gimp-2.3:21083): Gimp-Plug-In-WARNING **: gimp-2.3:

The "punchline" is the following:

>>> plug_in_flush(): error: Broken pipe

>> This is nothing to do with the zoom preview mate, you've got a blocked
>> toilet !! I should call out a plumber , this could get messy.

flush() does get the toilet reference, broken pipe to the "blocked"
(although it is debatable if "broken" and be read as "blocked" in this case)

>> sorry , had to laugh at the way that error came out. ;)

The last line should show how this message was meant to be understood -
and it does hint towards the reason as well.


HTH,
Michael

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