Hello Thomas, Tuesday, June 29, 2004, 1:22:02 PM, you wrote: Thomas> Do you know Asterix & Obelix? The fish seller, called Thomas> Verleihnix in German (don't know the English name) slaps Thomas> people with one of his dead fish when he gets angry. Those Thomas> fish apparently are trouts. The joke is older than Fidonet or Thomas> any BBS.
Yeah, I do remember us talking about this a while back. While I don't disagree that this might have been the origin, I'm just wondering whether that really was the origin. It's as good a guess as mine about a Trout BBS. <grin> Kinda like the Altavista Babelfish. Tower of Babel or Babelfish from :h2g2: or like a chain, Tower of Babel, Douglas Adams gets it from there, then Altavista gets Babelfish from Douglas Adams. Who knows? Taken to TBOT. -- :Leif_Gregory: (TB list moderator and fellow end user). Tagline of the day: I had a life once.. now I have a computer and an internet connection. Using The Bat! 2.12 Beta/1 under Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 on a Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
