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Rumour Has It That Larry Wall, Author Of Readnews, Is A Finalist In The Race For The Nobel Peace Prize For His Invention Of The Kill File.
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Rumour has it that Larry Wall, author of readnews, is a finalist in
the race for the Nobel Peace Prize for his invention of the kill file.
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A Nobel Peace Prize? I'd kill for one of those.
I think I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
You will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize... posthumously.
kill file n. [Usenet; very common] (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn(1)) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subjec
author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future....
kill file: [USENET] n. (alt. `KILL file') Per-user file(s) used by some {USENET} reading programs (originally Larry Wall's `rn(1)') to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subjec
author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future....
Just don't create a file called -rf -- Larry Wall
Nobel Prize Cannibals: Laurie Ate
Quote #298 My owner has a Nobel Prize. -- bumper sticker on Emilio Segre's car ( Prize was for Pu work done at Berkeley.
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