Re: Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-16 Thread Christos Georgiou
On 11 Mar 2006 03:22:42 -0800, rumours say that Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: Tim Churches wrote: Would it be possible to rename Cheese Shop as Bright Side of Life? [Paul] snip So should a service for finding Python packages have a distinct identity? It is possible that a

Re: Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-12 Thread Steve Holden
Bertrand Mansion wrote: On 3/12/06, Andrew Gwozdziewycz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the 'tadpoles' (i don't really think it's tadpoles really... but i'll bite for now), notice that it is a + sign, which we also always associate with life, and health (red cross comes to mind). Python is a

Re: Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-11 Thread Just
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:30:43 +1100, Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Would it be possible to rename Cheese Shop as Bright Side of Life? I think I'd prefer The

Re: Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-11 Thread Paul Boddie
Tim Churches wrote: Would it be possible to rename Cheese Shop as Bright Side of Life? Well, you could replay the conversation I gave as an example elsewhere to see if it sounds ridiculous or not, but what we've encountered here is the problem of whether something should be given a distinctive

Re: Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-11 Thread Kay Schluehr
Paul Boddie wrote: Tim Churches wrote: Would it be possible to rename Cheese Shop as Bright Side of Life? Well, you could replay the conversation I gave as an example elsewhere to see if it sounds ridiculous or not, but what we've encountered here is the problem of whether something should

Re: Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-11 Thread Michael Tobis
I like cheeseshop just fine, but have been a Monty Python fan since they appeared on the CBC in, I think, 1969. I'm one of those people who is always surprised when a MP bon mot is greeted with confusion and the suspicion that I have finally lost my mind altogether. So... If we are moving to the

Re: Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-11 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Michael Tobis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Pythons build no nests. Their eggs are found in coils. coil.python.org ? Better eggs.python.org. Would support the spread of the new file format, too. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetusICQ

Re: Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-11 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
Tadpoles ( http://python.org/images/python-logo.gif ) are immature frogs. If we keep the logo, we can change the name of the language to frog. Then the eggs would be found in lilypad.frog.org . I personally do not like this choice but it would have the virtue of consistency. (Did I

Re: Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-11 Thread Bertrand Mansion
On 3/12/06, Andrew Gwozdziewycz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the 'tadpoles' (i don't really think it's tadpoles really... but i'll bite for now), notice that it is a + sign, which we also always associate with life, and health (red cross comes to mind). Python is a healthy language. I

Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-10 Thread Tim Churches
Would it be possible to rename Cheese Shop as Bright Side of Life? That's a cheery, upbeat name, there are overtones of commerce or filthy lucre, it is a clear reference to one of the Monty Python crew's greatest works, it can be easily abbreviated to BSOL (to avoid confusion with BSL for blood

Re: Cheese Shop - BSOL?

2006-03-10 Thread Tim Churches
Tim Churches wrote: Would it be possible to rename Cheese Shop as Bright Side of Life? That's a cheery, upbeat name, there are overtones of commerce or filthy lucre, I meant no overtones, mea culpa. Tim C -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list