Re: Linux 2.6.32

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> 
> it seems the lkml spam filter ate your reply,
> maybe you shouldn't have mentioned the er**** pickled herring?
> I'll keep a (slightly censored) full quote below,
> hoping it gets through.  It would be a shame if
> this essential information would be withheld from
> the Linux community ;-)

Actually, it wasn't about the er**** pickled herring, and your censored 
email failed to get through too.

I think it's the word "b*droom" that triggered the problem - it's on the 
taboo list. I censored that one too, let's see if this now goes through.

What a nasty lkml taboo list. Some of those entries really are very crazy 
aggressive.

		Linus

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> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:41:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > > 
> > > it seems no one else dares to ask, so I'll bite:
> > > Why is the kernel NAME no longer updated?
> > 
> > I'm not sure that you didn't mistype 'dares' (that 'c' is close to the 'd' 
> > key on at least /my/ keyboard), but the answer is simple: I change the 
> > name totally randomly, and it's usually brought on by me reading something 
> > that struck me as funny. 
> > 
> > So the current "Man-eating Seals of Antiquity" comes from Bart Ehrman's 
> > book "Jesus Interrupted". The previous one "Vindictive Armadillo", was I 
> > think from an email that Alan Cox sent (probably some odd comment or 
> > signature).  The one before that was just due to the tasmanian devil 
> > mascot, while "Er**** Pickled Herring" was due to a NY-Times article that 
> > said - quote - "It's as er**** as pickled herring."
> > 
> > [ Really. Look it up:
> > 
> > 	http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/arts/27abro.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
> > 
> >   and tell me that "Er**** Pickled Herring" doesn't make sense as a name 
> >   for the kernel - or a rock band, for that matter. ]
> > 
> > And "Killer Bat of Doom" was due to a cute small bat somehow getting lost, 
> > and ending up in Patricia's b*droom (it happened twice, and we have no 
> > idea how it got in).
> > 
> > But I no longer remember what the background for "Rotary Wombat" and 
> > "Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it" was.
> > 
> > "Nocturnal Monster Puppy" was when Teddy (our dog) was little, and I had 
> > to wake up a couple of times a night to take him out to pee. And "Lordi 
> > Rules" was when hell froze over, and Finland won the Eurovision (if you 
> > were Finnish, you'd understand - the largest newspaper in Finland 
> > literally had "Hell Freezes Over" as the main story on the front page).
> > 
> > 			Linus
> > 
> 
> Thanks,
> Johannes
>