Live Rabid!

2009-11-16 Thread Jonathan Stowe
Hi, If for some reason you have managed to avoid this elsewhere I thought I would make a suggestion for your entertainment this coming Thursday. On Thursday 19th November I will be playing (as Rabid Gravy) the usual noise with beats in it at: Alter Ega 191 Balham High Road London SW17 Also on

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-16 Thread David Golden
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:51 AM, David Landgren da...@landgren.net wrote: I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up on the cont...@perl.org queue. (I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone point me to other similar Acme modules to

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-16 Thread David Golden
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Jerry D. Hedden jdhed...@cpan.org wrote: Consider Jeff Foxworthy making fun of rednecks. How is that different? (Apologies if redneck jokes are too obscure for the non-Americans reading this thread.) Jeff Foxworthy is a comedian. (Damn good one, too!) But

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-16 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
David Landgren wrote: I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up on the cont...@perl.org queue. (I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone point me to other similar Acme modules to put this in context?) David Golden replied: I think

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-16 Thread Pedro Figueiredo
On 15 Nov 2009, at 15:47, David Golden wrote: I don't support censoring bad thoughts. I would rather see the author withdraw it voluntarily. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/david-mitchell-comedy

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-16 Thread Philip Newton
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 17:55, Jerry D. Hedden jdhed...@cpan.org wrote: To whom is it offensive?  Nigerians that are ashamed of what their fellow countrymen are doing?  Well, they should be, and should put a stop to it. Well, that's easily said. Clearly, all UK citizens who are ashamed of

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-16 Thread Jonas Brømsø Nielsen
Aloha, Most cultures/countries have a redneck equivalent, so it is not totally wasted on us non-us... anyway. I say if we have offended anybody, we remove the offending distribution. It is in the acme namespace, so it will not create a lot of fuss removing it. The author has the choice and