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2001-05-14 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:44:16PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let > > me thing about it > > IN AD 1987, PERL WAS BEGINNING. ...and no one was prepared for the I

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2001-05-14 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let > me thing about it IN AD 1987, PERL WAS BEGINNING. -- The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his

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2001-05-14 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:23:01AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote: > > Bikay: Muahahaha! Your feeble strict style cannot defeat me! It is gay! I'm trying to get some *work* done here... dha, having trouble doing work while laughing this hard... -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www

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2001-05-14 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:52:50AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: > I keep meaning to ask, where do all these plan9 bad day quotes come from? The plan9 fortune file. It's the mistakes they made while they were developing it. -- yes >/dev/kmem # Shutdown is broken. This'll have to do - pla

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2001-05-14 Thread Peter Haworth
On Sat, 12 May 2001 16:38:08 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > diff: usage diff [whatever] etc. > - plan9 has a bad day I keep meaning to ask, where do all these plan9 bad day quotes come from? -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[Unicycling] in the mud is good for you. It builds char

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2001-05-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Matthew Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > (enter Birakay) > > Bikay: CHOPS! I come to defeat you both, old ones! My howitzer-up-arse > Hereford attack will prevail! > > Bikay: Muahahaha! Your feeble strict style cannot defeat me! It is gay! > roflmao, damn that almost makes me want to go

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2001-05-14 Thread Matthew Jones
> Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics > against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... Mikarru: I have you now, Davukiros! My Dark Heretics will overwhelm you! Davukiros: Never! (performs complicated air kungfu) Sliced camel stomp feet! Hands in twelve Golden Cat Claws! (en

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2001-05-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Martin Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:37:43AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: > > > > Snow Crash, essentially. > > > > > > I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. > > > > You'

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2001-05-13 Thread Martin Ling
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:37:43AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: > > > Snow Crash, essentially. > > > > I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. > > You're obviously not the only one: > http://www.corona.bc.ca/

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2001-05-13 Thread Martin Ling
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:42:56AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: > > Totally. I mean, if they can make Antitrust.. :) > > :still laughs at: "I've fixed our bottleneck!" "What, you realised that you've > been writing Java?".. Hmm. Now, am I really sad enough to sit down and do a complete bastardisati

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2001-05-12 Thread Chris Ball
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: > I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. Totally. I mean, if they can make Antitrust.. :) :still laughs at: "I've fixed our bottleneck!" "What, you realised that you've been writing Java?".. ~C. -- Chris Bal

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2001-05-12 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: > > Snow Crash, essentially. > > I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. You're obviously not the only one: http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/snowcrash.html -- Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel

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2001-05-12 Thread Barry Pretsell
t; > London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? bandwidth sucking or beer supping ones, or both? Barry Pretsell - Original Message - From: "Chris Devers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 5:54 P

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2001-05-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Martin Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young > > > people from the world and has l

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2001-05-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: > > > Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style > > computer geek saves the world. > > Buffy meets Real Genius meets Hackers meets Spaced meets Seven Samurai > meets Pi meet

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2001-05-12 Thread Martin Ling
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:01:26PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > Evil Dead - the Language of Darkness. > > > Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics > > against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... > > And has someone stolen our Illustrious Leader's Secret Manual? Y'know,

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2001-05-12 Thread Martin Ling
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young > > people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be > > flash

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2001-05-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:49:05AM -0400, Alex Page wrote: > How about a movie set in a post-holocaustic London where the > surviving Perl Mongers are desperately trying to survive against > the hordes of radiation-addled Java Zombies, and locate the few > remaining stashes of beer and bandwidth?

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2001-05-12 Thread Martin Ling
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style > computer geek saves the world. ObRant (sigh, becoming a habit again): 'Oh, hey! Like, I saw that Antitrust movie! I remember you're one of those Linux guys, so yo

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2001-05-12 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: > > >well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... > > > > Lessee... > > > > Let's make a film, > > London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can t

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2001-05-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dean S Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let > >me thing about it > > > Someone please employ Mr Mccarroll. My mail box can't cope with him > having this mu

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2001-05-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Alex Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? > > They could represent the lifesucking programmers who religiously > > follow Booch methodology and use Java. > > How

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2001-05-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Snow Crash, essentially. yeah but with Vampires, and the sword fighting would be carried out in the real world by a young blonde female - see its totally original! -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

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2001-05-12 Thread Alex Page
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? > They could represent the lifesucking programmers who religiously > follow Booch methodology and use Java. How about a movie set in a post-holocaustic London where

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2001-05-12 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young > people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be > flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING > S

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2001-05-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: > Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style > computer geek saves the world. Buffy meets Real Genius meets Hackers meets Spaced meets Seven Samurai meets Pi meets Office Space meets Blade Runner meets Austin Powers?

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2001-05-12 Thread Dean S Wilson
-Original Message- From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let >me thing about it Someone please employ Mr Mccarroll. My mail box can't cope with him having this much spare time. ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language

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2001-05-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Martin Ling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > > London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! > > As I was saying to someone only yesterday, movies made by a bunch of > crazy geeks would be an absolute riot. Go for it. > Somehow I

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2001-05-12 Thread Martin Ling
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! As I was saying to someone only yesterday, movies made by a bunch of crazy geeks would be an absolute riot. Go for it. Martin

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2001-05-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: > >well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... > > Lessee... > > Let's make a film, London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? They could represent the lifesucking program

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2001-05-11 Thread Alex Page
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:06:52PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Right, so who's going to write a script that parses all of the london.pm traffic and tells us what we need to drink? Alex, what, *read* the bloody thing? -- "I ask for s

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2001-05-11 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:58:58AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: > >well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... > > Lessee... > > Let's make a film, a travel film, involving Damien-esque programming as a > plot device. We can make PIMF ("P

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2001-05-11 Thread Chris Devers
At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: >well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Lessee... Let's make a film, a travel film, involving Damien-esque programming as a plot device. We can make PIMF ("Perl is my Film") tshirts to promote it, even if Randal doesn't like them. I

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2001-05-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... (see attachment) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net =pod =head1 NAME London.pm - The Drinking Game =head1 DESCRIPTION Someone on rec.arts.sf.written (rasfw) suggested a rasfw drinking