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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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