Kubuntu vs. Ubuntu

[Steven Vollom]

David McGlone wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 September 2007 6:04:04 pm Steven Vollom wrote:
>   
>> David McGlone wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 19 September 2007 1:15:11 pm Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Steven Vollom wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Stew Schneider wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Reading all those stories from you oldtimers, I'm still waiting for
>>>>>>> somebody to tell us how she / he discussed the design of the
>>>>>>> difference engine with Charles Babbage :))
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Charles was terribly stubborn and wouldn't listen to me, but I can
>>>>>> humbly confess to having designated the bottom of a filesystem tree
>>>>>> as "root". At the time, everyone was calling it "bottom", but I
>>>>>> suggested that since we were all geeks, too much talk of "mounting
>>>>>> the bottom" would make us laugh backwards, resulting in snorty noises.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think we made the right decision.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> stew
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I'm making snorting noises.
>>>>> Steven
>>>>>           
>>>> Could this non-kubuntu discussion be taken elsewhere please?
>>>>         
>>> Now I'm snorting ;-)
>>>       
>> I've changed, now I am chortling.
>>     
>
> If I was literate enough to have known what chortling was, I would have joined 
> you. Too late now.
>
>
>   
chortle \CHOR-tl\, transitive and intransitive verb:
1. To utter, or express with, a snorting, exultant laugh or chuckle.   
It's the Vista of snorts.

Steven
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