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1.1     ! root        1: From:  Don Chiasson <[email protected]>
        !             2: Subject: Some gnu jokes
        !             3: To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
        !             4: cc: [email protected]
        !             5: Message-ID: <[email protected]>
        !             6: 
        !             7:      Richard M. Stallman (RMS, widely known for creating EMACS) is writing
        !             8: a UNIX clone called GNU (which means Gnu's Not Unix--a recursive acronym).
        !             9: This seems to open the way to a whole gnu class of jokes.  For example:
        !            10: 
        !            11: Q:  What do you call a person who hacks while wearing no clothes?
        !            12: A:  A gnudist.
        !            13: 
        !            14: Q:  What do you call an eligible young hacker?
        !            15: A:  Gnubile.
        !            16: 
        !            17: Q:  What is a hacker's favorite candy?
        !            18: A:  Gnugat.   (Though it contains little gnutrition.)
        !            19: 
        !            20: Q:  What do you call a computer filled with air?
        !            21: A:  Gnumatic.
        !            22: 
        !            23: Q:  What do you call a novice hacker who keeps pestering you 
        !            24:     with foolish questions?
        !            25: A:  A gnuisance.
        !            26: 
        !            27: Q:  What do you call a subtle, clever hack in the favorite language?
        !            28: A:  A gnuanCe.
        !            29: 
        !            30: Q:  What do you use a supercomputer for?
        !            31: A:  Gnumerical analysis.
        !            32: 
        !            33: Q:  What do you call a hacker who collects coins?
        !            34: A:  A gnumismatist.
        !            35: 
        !            36:      Well, there are more, just too gnumerous to tell all at once.  I think
        !            37: I'd better go before someone starts firing gnuclear weapons at me.
        !            38:                Don

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