From: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
To: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.12
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:47:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506211947.15988.kwall@kurtwerks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506210827210.10780@chaos.analogic.com>
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 08:30, Richard B. Johnson enlightened us thusly:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
[deletia]
> > Anyway, I've given up trying to educate pork, so don't feel compelled
> > to reply, I don't expect you to achieve enlightenment any time soon.
> >
> > Dave
>
> Who do you think you are that you can call me a pig?
It's a metaphor: "Teaching <x> to do <y> is like teaching a
pig to sing; it annoys the pig and you won't like the results."
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-21 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-20 13:07 Linux-2.6.12 Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-20 13:48 ` Linux-2.6.12 Hugh Dickins
2005-06-20 14:22 ` Linux-2.6.12 Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-20 14:41 ` Linux-2.6.12 Hugh Dickins
2005-06-20 15:32 ` Linux-2.6.12 Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-20 16:02 ` Linux-2.6.12 Hugh Dickins
2005-06-21 0:32 ` Linux-2.6.12 Dave Jones
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506210629110.8815@chaos.analogic.com>
2005-06-21 11:13 ` Linux-2.6.12 Dave Jones
2005-06-21 11:17 ` Linux-2.6.12 Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-21 11:30 ` Linux-2.6.12 Dave Jones
2005-06-21 11:36 ` Linux-2.6.12 Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-21 11:55 ` Linux-2.6.12 Dave Jones
2005-06-21 12:01 ` Linux-2.6.12 Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-21 12:15 ` Linux-2.6.12 Dave Jones
2005-06-21 12:30 ` Linux-2.6.12 Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-21 12:46 ` Linux-2.6.12 Dave Jones
2005-06-21 23:47 ` Kurt Wall [this message]
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