[TriLUG] really OT.. ancient thread.. metaphysical humor

[Marty Ferguson]

Brian McCullough wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Marty Ferguson wrote:
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>>Rick DeNatale wrote:
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>>>On 5/4/06, Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime at cpphacker.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>Jason Tower wrote:
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>>>>>as a matter of fact i was watching a tv program the other day 
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>>>>>time travel, and i learned that you can't change the past:
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>>>>Weird... I was watching a tv programme [1] the other day
>>>>involving time travel and learned that you *can* change the
>>>>past... but when you do, the past keeps trying to reassert
>>>>itself and big demon like creatures appear and start
>>>>swallowing people.  <shrug>
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>>>Well the last time *I* tried it, I ended up forking a parallel universe.
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>>>Lost track of what happened to my old(1) universe.
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>>>(1) Or maybe it was my NEW universe, I get a bit confused sometimes.
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>Don't forget that you need to keep track of the pid returned by fork()!
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This is too damn funny!  ROTFL

M