Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...

[alan <alan@clueserver.org>]

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > If we're going to have release code names for the kernel, might as well
> > advertise them somewhere. :)
>
> Well, part of the charm of the name is that it's totally meaningless. I
> can pick names out of my *ss, and they don't matter in the least, and
> nobody will ever see it except in the kernel diffs.

Unlike the release names for "Pan" (http://pan.rebelbase.com/).  They 
revel in weird release names.

"I will not buy this lutefisk, it is scratched."

> (As to Lordi, I've only ever seen their Eurovision thing on Youtube,
> because those pesky US networks thinks we're interested in some kind of
> inferior "American Idol" copycat product.

Except the Eurovision Song Contest has been going on since sometime in the 
middle of the Jurasic period.

> But unless you've lived in
> Finland during the 80s and 90s, you just simply cannot appreciate the
> "Whaaa?" factor of having Finland win the dang thing. Imagine a whole
> _country_ going "Whaaa? What the f?" at the same time..).

It would be like Gwar winning American Idol.  (Which would be about the 
only way to get me to watch it.)

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