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State of the Onion 7

Posted by michael on from the cry-cry-cry dept.

chromatic writes "One of the highlights of every OSCON is Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion address, covering Perl, philosophy, linguistics, music, theology, science, and usually a few other things thrown in for good measure. His talk from OSCON 2003, State of the Onion 7, is now online."

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  1. Ponie by radio4fan · · Score: 4, Informative

    To be sure, none of them are good reasons, but I'm told it will make the London.pm'ers deliriously happy if I say, "I want a Ponie".
    And I do want a Ponie.

    For those who are wondering, a 'pony' is cockney rhyming slang for crap:
    Pony and trap: crap.
    1. Re:Ponie by blech · · Score: 4, Informative

      On the London.pm IRC channel, people talk a lot about wanting ponies, especially when people are (or are percieved to be) upset.

      "I wanna pony!"
      "Here, stroke the lovely pony."
      "Pony drop!" - lots of ponies for the terminally stressed.

      The origins of the phrase are lost in the mists of time. However, it's possible that someone was acting quite a lot like a seven year old at the time.

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      DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
  2. You would be surprised... by Cyclopedian · · Score: 4, Informative
    to know that quote is attributed to Mother Teresa.

    Source here.

    -Cyc

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    /.'s 10 Millionth
  3. You would also be surprised... by interiot · · Score: 4, Informative

    to know that Larry covered that in his speech and somewhat dismissed the Mother Teresa connection (the quote has been attributed to all sorts of people). Yes, he talked about every random topic you could possibly think of.

  4. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's actually the original "in Soviet Russia" joke, from long before Yaakov Smirnoff made it a tiresome catchphrase. It was something that cynical Russians used to say: "Under capitalism, the Party tells us, man oppresses man. Under communism, it's the other way around."

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
  5. Re:In Soviet Russia... by thesatirist · · Score: 4, Informative

    Which is somewhat related to a statement made by John Kenneth Galbraith, "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it is the opposite."