What would you do/say if you met…

MrCode · 09-02-2011, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by brianL

I can't be bothered working out what that says. Translation, please?

It's supposed to be a very rough rendition of "'Allo, what's all this then?" spoken with a British accent (dunno what region, though

), referring to the fact that I was having a hard time understanding your deliberately misspelled posts.

I'm no linguist; my grasp of the IPA is vague, to say the least.

I was just trying to play along with the 'write-phonetically-how-you-speak' thing, I guess. I apologize if I made myself look like a dork…it was off-topic anyway. :-\

brianL · 09-02-2011, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by MrCode

"'Allo, what's all this then?"

That's traditionally what the old "beat bobby" (police foot patrol) was supposed to say to anyone behaving suspiciously.

No apologies necessary.

aizkorri · 09-02-2011, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by MrCode

Richard Stallman
Linus Torvalds
Mark Shuttleworth
Patrick Volkerding(sp?)

hi, erm..., cool piece of code there...,

a beer? :-)

anomie · 09-02-2011, 10:37 AM

Agree with the last guy. No need to try to be clever - they get enough of that from their daily routines.

A pint of Guinness and an inconsequential chat about the weather says everything I'd want to say.

FredGSanford · 09-02-2011, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by MrCode

What would you do if you met any one of these people

I would ask, "Is that you Lisabeth?"

Seriously, I would tell them all, thanks for giving us a free OS.

rokytnji · 09-02-2011, 08:29 PM

Ever ride a scooter?

Want to borrow one of mine?

Want to go bar hopping? I'm buying.

mostlyharmless · 09-02-2011, 11:06 PM

Don't think I'd recognize any of them, but I'd probably ignore who they were anyway.

I might say something clueless like: "Did you know there's this computer guy with the same name as you?" or something like that...

phil.d.g · 09-03-2011, 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by MrCode

I apologize if I made myself look like a dork…it was off-topic anyway. :-\

No need for apologies, in fact it was kinda appropriate seeing as we were taking the thread off topic

H_TeXMeX_H · 09-03-2011, 09:54 AM

I'd probably say:

Hello there Mr. _______, it's really nice to meet you. You are an inspiration to us all ... then I'd probably wait for a response ...

schneidz · 09-03-2011, 10:55 AM

i met rich stallman before... he is a little bit arrogant:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ystems-714650/

Timothy Miller · 09-03-2011, 11:12 AM

Depends, if I met them on the street, it would probably be "hello" to any of them, since there's not a chance I'd identify a single one of them by sight.

In another venue where I knew who I meeting, I'd probably go with something more important...say..."what is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" (that was also the 1 question I told my boss that he should put on the application for my replacement, although he didn't immediately realize the importance of that question, he's not a big fan of python)

desertranger · 09-03-2011, 02:44 PM

The only one I would want to meet is Linus Thorvald. He created and OS that allows a user to be extremely productive in a multi-user and multi-tasking environment. Everybody else just screwed it up with bells, baubles and bloatware that get's in the way. I need something that works. Not something I have to spend tme getting to work.

Windows, Mac or Linux every OS sucks.

Except Windows. I sucks and blows and the same time.

Frank111 · 09-03-2011, 08:36 PM

If I ever meet these people, I would say:

To linus Torvalds:

"Thanks for releasing the source code of your OS and not charging for it like the greedy pigs at Redmond."

To Stallman:
"Thanks for the GNU projects. BTW, get a haircut and shave hippie."

To Shuttleworth:

"Can you spare a million dollars."

To Patrick:

"Slackware Rules..."

brianL · 09-04-2011, 03:24 AM

Linus, Richard, Mark, and Patrick, were walking along the street when they saw MrCode coming towards them. "Oh ****!", they all cried, "let's cross over before he starts lecturing us about determinism!"

linuxlover.chaitanya · 09-05-2011, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by brianL

Linus, Richard, Mark, and Patrick, were walking along the street when they saw MrCode coming towards them. "Oh ****!", they all cried, "let's cross over before he starts lecturing us about determinism!"

Ha ha ha ha ha ha