La Salle Debain

Open Source @ Consolidated Braincells Inc.

About La Salle Debain

This is a weblog I'm keeping about my work on Debian and any other useful Debian related info I come across. It is not meant to compete with other news sources like Debian Weekly News or Debian Planet. Mostly it is just a way for me to classify and remember all the random bits of information that I have floating around me. I thought maybe by using a blog it could be of some use to others too. Btw. "I" refers to Jaldhar H. Vyas, Debian developer for over 8 years. If you want to know more about me, my home page is here.

The name? Debain is a very common misspelling of Debian and la salle de bains means bathroom in French.

If you have a comment to make on something you read here, feel free to write to me at jaldhar@debian.org.

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Saturday, November 15 2008

Today in Ancient Comedy News

It has been reported that the roots of Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch are 1600 years old. The original is from a Greek joke collection called Philogelos (The Laugh Addict.) It goes like this:

A man goes up to a student dunce (scholastikos) and says "The slave you sold me died." "By the Gods," the dunce counters, "When he was with me, he never did any such thing!"

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