Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:54:11 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.32 |
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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
--- > 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 Why is the kernel NAME no longer updated?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 >
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