Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" Newsgroups: talk.origins,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Happy Hallow-mas Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:24:29 +0000 Organization: Dis Lines: 12 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: <20241031192429.b765a704589b8dd68849a1f4@127.0.0.1> References: <9f599af80475b8c0d99be89afae28e39@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="94025"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZX2btLkGQAb+i9yUfZtoSKC3W0U= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 1C461229782; Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:24:36 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0132A229765 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:24:33 -0400 (EDT) id A508D5DF9A; Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay-1.kamens.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F1395DF99 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:24:32 +0000 (UTC) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-256)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eternal-september.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BA725F70C for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:24:30 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: name/3BA725F70C; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=127.0.0.1 id BF26FDC01A9; Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:24:29 +0100 (CET) X-Injection-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:24:29 +0100 (CET) ;X-no-Archive: Maybe X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19Bp/Y8Vw8wgNGDD1yOetcWSE9xYV8Q1KdAqVIeQIGH2w== GNU: Terry Pratchett X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32) SigSep: is ALWAYS dash dash space newline tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_BLOCKED, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_IN_WELCOMELIST,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 smtp.eternal-september.org Bytes: 2758 On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:13:14 +0000 b.schafer@ed.ac.uk (Burkhard) wrote: > Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas? > Same every year. I vaguely recollect it was a DEC joke, but it may be earlier. (xpost added: TO and AFC) -- Bah, and indeed Humbug.