[H]omer espoused:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Can Stephen Fry deliver open source to the UK?
>
> Who'da thunk that Lord Melchett would become an advocate of the people?
>
> Good for him.
>

Oh, it really is *that* Stephen Fry...

The very excellent Jeeves & Wooster has been showing recently on ITV4,
so I'm tending to see Fry as Jeeves at the moment...

"Indeed Sir, it is a fine operating system, worthy of the attentions
of all gentlemen of taste and character..."

"Perhaps Sir would care to start X? It is very simple."

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Mark Kent wrote:

> [H]omer espoused:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> Can Stephen Fry deliver open source to the UK?
>>
>> Who'da thunk that Lord Melchett would become an advocate of the people?
>>
>> Good for him.
>>
>
> Oh, it really is *that* Stephen Fry...
>
> The very excellent Jeeves & Wooster has been showing recently on ITV4,
> so I'm tending to see Fry as Jeeves at the moment...
>
> "Indeed Sir, it is a fine operating system, worthy of the attentions
> of all gentlemen of taste and character..."
>
> "Perhaps Sir would care to start X? It is very simple."

Yes, he writes a column for The Guardian. Over the last few weeks/months, he's
been discussing Open Source.
http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/

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[H]omer wrote:

> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>
>> Oh, it really is *that* Stephen Fry...
>
> Yes indeed, the rebellious scallywag that he is.
>
>> The very excellent Jeeves & Wooster has been showing recently on
>> ITV4, so I'm tending to see Fry as Jeeves at the moment...
>
> I hadn't seen him for years, then all of a sudden, over the Christmas
> period, I saw him in four separate things; Blackadder's Christmas Carol,
> Have I Got News For You, V for Vendetta, and Derren Brown: Trick of the
> Mind (on DVD).

And the (IMO) entertaining "QI". :-)

>> "Indeed Sir, it is a fine operating system, worthy of the attentions
>> of all gentlemen of taste and character..."
>>
>> "Perhaps Sir would care to start X? It is very simple."
>
> "No thank you Jeeves; I prefer the command line."
> "I like issuing commands. Ffnnnaaaaar!"
>

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:21:09 +0000, [H]omer wrote:


>> "Perhaps Sir would care to start X? It is very simple."
>
> "No thank you Jeeves; I prefer the command line."
> "I like issuing commands. Ffnnnaaaaar!"

You must have a riot editing video or touching up those photographs.


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____/ William Poaster on Wednesday 13 February 2008 23:55 : \____

> Mark Kent wrote:
>
>> [H]omer espoused:
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> Can Stephen Fry deliver open source to the UK?
>>>
>>> Who'da thunk that Lord Melchett would become an advocate of the people?
>>>
>>> Good for him.
>>>
>>
>> Oh, it really is *that* Stephen Fry...
>>
>> The very excellent Jeeves & Wooster has been showing recently on ITV4,
>> so I'm tending to see Fry as Jeeves at the moment...
>>
>> "Indeed Sir, it is a fine operating system, worthy of the attentions
>> of all gentlemen of taste and character..."
>>
>> "Perhaps Sir would care to start X? It is very simple."
>
> Yes, he writes a column for The Guardian. Over the last few weeks/months,
> he's been discussing Open Source.
> http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/

He looks ahead.

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William Poaster espoused:
> [H]omer wrote:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>>
>>> Oh, it really is *that* Stephen Fry...
>>
>> Yes indeed, the rebellious scallywag that he is.
>>
>>> The very excellent Jeeves & Wooster has been showing recently on
>>> ITV4, so I'm tending to see Fry as Jeeves at the moment...
>>
>> I hadn't seen him for years, then all of a sudden, over the Christmas
>> period, I saw him in four separate things; Blackadder's Christmas Carol,
>> Have I Got News For You, V for Vendetta, and Derren Brown: Trick of the
>> Mind (on DVD).
>
> And the (IMO) entertaining "QI". :-)

QI is very popular with several of my friends.

>
>>> "Indeed Sir, it is a fine operating system, worthy of the attentions
>>> of all gentlemen of taste and character..."
>>>
>>> "Perhaps Sir would care to start X? It is very simple."
>>
>> "No thank you Jeeves; I prefer the command line."
>> "I like issuing commands. Ffnnnaaaaar!"
>>
>


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Roy Schestowitz espoused:
> ____/ William Poaster on Wednesday 13 February 2008 23:55 : \____
>
>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>
>>> [H]omer espoused:
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>
>>>>> Can Stephen Fry deliver open source to the UK?
>>>>
>>>> Who'da thunk that Lord Melchett would become an advocate of the people?
>>>>
>>>> Good for him.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, it really is *that* Stephen Fry...
>>>
>>> The very excellent Jeeves & Wooster has been showing recently on ITV4,
>>> so I'm tending to see Fry as Jeeves at the moment...
>>>
>>> "Indeed Sir, it is a fine operating system, worthy of the attentions
>>> of all gentlemen of taste and character..."
>>>
>>> "Perhaps Sir would care to start X? It is very simple."
>>
>> Yes, he writes a column for The Guardian. Over the last few weeks/months,
>> he's been discussing Open Source.
>> http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/
>
> He looks ahead.
>

He goes ever further up in my estimation. He really is a kind of modern
day Oscar Wilde...

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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:36:25 +0000, [H]omer wrote:


> He is an extraordinarily engaging, witty and eloquent writer, but then
> that's hardly surprising for a man with a degree in English literature
> from Cambridge. He's quite an asset for Free Software advocacy.

http://www.abiword.org/~abi/expo99/expo_02_010_full.jpg

When are you going to release the source code to your weekly
comp.os.linux.advocacy statistics program [Homer] ?

You expect others to do it.

Why don't you follow your own advice?

[Homer] = [Hypocrite] != Linux Advocate.
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[H]omer espoused:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>
>> He goes ever further up in my estimation. He really is a kind of modern
>> day Oscar Wilde...
>
> Well he did play the role in Brian Gilbert's film.
>
> He is an extraordinarily engaging, witty and eloquent writer, but then
> that's hardly surprising for a man with a degree in English literature
> from Cambridge. He's quite an asset for Free Software advocacy.
>

Douglas Adams was a big Mac fan, as I recall... Artistic types are far
more technically adept than many marketing and sales people would like
to recognise.

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