RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the wholeCygwin release/ distribution

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

> [Thread TITTTLd from main list!]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski
> > Sent: 04 October 2004 15:31
>
> > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David Christensen
> > > > Sent: 03 October 2004 03:15
> > >
> > > > Would you be interested in mentoring a willing volunteer?
> > >
> > >   Certainly.  Just stand still right here for just one minute........
> > >
> > >            ****KER-SQUELCH-SPLAT-SMACK****
> > > [sound of massive slap round face with a very wet kipper]
> > >
> > > <brushes dust off hands>  That'll learn 'im!
> >
> > Umm, this reminded me of a passage in a book I'm reading:
> >
> > 	"You.  Name a test to determine whether a recruit is
> > fit to become
> > 	a marine."
> > 	The dwarf scratched her trimmed beard.  "The recruit is tied--"
> > 	she hastily corrected herself "--the recruit /volunteers/ to be
> > 	tied to a sabre-toothed tiger and shut up in its cave.  If the
> > 	recruit comes out, she passed.  If the tiger comes out, she
> > 	failed.  If she comes out riding the sabre-toothed tiger, make her
> > 	a corporal."[*]
> >
> > I just felt that this sums up the whole volunteering bit
> > nicely.  Though perhaps it's time to TITTTL...
> > 	Igor
> > [*] With apologies to Mary Gentle.
>
>   I liked that passage, it reminds me of a Harry Harrison short story I
> was reading recently.  Being HH, it wasn't dwarves and saber-tooths, it
> was corpsmen of the space marines and their genetically-modified mutant
> camel steeds, which had an annoying habit of biting.  Their arms off!

Sorry to dredge up an old topic, but I was basically raking my brains (on
and off) all this time, trying to recall the name of that story.  I
finally got it -- "Space Rats of the CCC".  Gee, should I be proud, or
what? :-D
	Igor
P.S. A great story, BTW.
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