[TUHS] manual humour (was tunefs -m 5%)

[Henry Bent]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 15:22, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu> wrote:

> Henry Bent wrote in
>  <CAEdTPBcGT_8fdrD10Gp_D3DZAWTEMyayGPEW0oEfWmwHoarsxw at mail.gmail.com>:
>  |-.TH KILL 1
>  |-.SH NAME
>  |-kill \- terminate a process with extreme prejudice
>  |
>  |One of my favorite references.
>  |
>  |At least the offensive fortunes still survive in some form?
>
> People do not have time to read such offensive terms, they bath in
> blood while playing Counter Strike (or another first person
> shooter), having their double quarter pounder at hand.
>

Indeed.  I think many people have been teenagers and been that person in
some form or another, but outgrowing a phase of life doesn't mean
forgetting or ignoring it.

A quick grep through the CSRG CDs revealed that the phrase survived in 32v,
as well as in some form of BSDs up to 4.3-Tahoe.  mh also had a variant of
it (wow, the irony...).

-Henry
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