On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:33:58 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> writes: > >> Le Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:19:24 +0000, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : >> > 4. Python 3 will make you irresistible to women. >> > >> > FALSE - Python 3 coders are no more likely to get a date than any >> > other programmer. >> >> They spend less time coding, so they /can/ get more "dates" (what a >> strange English word) :-) > > Perhaps Steven could tell you about a lovely Australian meaning for the > word “date”.
This is a family list, so perhaps I shouldn't. :) In Australia slang, "date" is short for "date hole", which is the part of the anatomy which is also known as "the [one] brown eye". In parts of the US, it is also known as the "corn hole", and in Cockney rhyming slang it is a jam role. I trust I don't need to be any more explicit... -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
