gnu control (for those not familiar) was a dodge used on the USENET r.a.sf.* hierarchy (mostly in .written and .fandom, AIR) to dodge various searches (people would search for "gon control" and go in and make barely reasoned, ill-thought out, ranting and screaming arguments, about gnu control, on USENET? Say it ain't so!).
It's outlasted many of our actual stays on USENET, naturally enough.
Fragano wrote -
Back in the mid-60s, my father decided to homebrew beer. He bottled before fermentation was completed; this had, ahem, explosive results, and a kitchen awash in strong-smelling beer.
My father's incident with this was not-quite sparkling wine (it wasn't supposed to be...) and it was in the 70s instead of the 80s, but, yeah... it's kinda amazing how much pressure can be built up in a well-corked bottle before it goes (POP!) and sends the cork flying through the darkroom cum winecellar* with great velocity.
*(it was originally set up as a darkroom. Dad turned it into a wine cellar. Then back into a dark room that had some storage space for wine bottles, when he decided he'd had enough fun bottling**).
**(It was, perhaps, inevitable that my father - who was an organic chemist at Kodak, way back when - would take up either brewing or wine-making. Something about all the free carboys and other glassware he could take out of the EKSalvage system. It was likely just as inevitable, given his predilections, that as soon as he got good enough to be not-amateur at it, he quit and picked up another hobby...).
Fragano Ledgister wrote -
Scott Taylor #608: Why not blue?
Ork Mekanik
Red Wunz Go Fasta!
Squig
Why make cows go fasta?
Ork Mekanik
(hits Squig with giant wrench) Shaddup you!
(In Warhammer 40k, the associated color of the Orky Gods of Speed is red. So Orks believe fervently that if you paint something red, it "goes fasta" - which is born out in at least some versions (ISTR that painting vehicle models red gave an extra d6" in movement, rolled every turn). This leads to the guy I know who has a pair of Ork battlewagons that are painted billious green. Turns out the brothers who run the two battlewagons are both color blind...).
Fragano wrote -
Stephen Sample #588: How do you ork cows?
Paint them red.
Aconite wrote -
Xopher@248: I understand camp. I also know that Killer Klowns gave me the heebie jeebies for weeks afterwards, for many reasons.
Klowns are Kreepy.
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