Code name for Fedora 9

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Jan 29 01:18:57 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:10 -0800, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 18:31 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
> >   
> >> On Monday 28 January 2008, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Craig White wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 14:49 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> Last one to the pun is a rotten egg!
> >>>>>           
> >>>> that of course was only 2/3 of a pun... P U
> >>>>         
> >>> Not even that.
> >>> Even for punning purposes, sulphur != hydrogen sulphide.
> >>>       
> >> You miss the deeper pun.  Further, since when does a US company prefer a 
> >> Continental spelling over the US spelling 'sulfur' ?
> >>
> >> Of course, that's part of the pun. But you have to be a history buff to get 
> >> it.
> >>     
> > ----
> > even with your hints, I am too dense to get it.
> >
> > Craig
> >   
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide <- H2S is the reason why 
> rotten eggs smell the way they do. The odor of H2S is often mistakenly 
> attributed to elemental sulfur.
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Yeah but Lamar already brought that up... sulphur != hydrogen sulphide
and then suggested a deeper pun that required history buff status which
obviously escapes me.

Craig




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