ANNOUNCE: A *second* Python 2.1 release candidate!

[Ben Wolfson]

In article <slrn9dm66e.7bp.grey at teleute.dmiyu.org>, "Steve Lamb"
<grey at despair.rpglink.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:48:40 -0500, Ben Wolfson <wolfson at uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
>>In article <slrn9dm3gf.7bp.grey at teleute.dmiyu.org>, "Steve Lamb"
>><grey at despair.rpglink.com> wrote:
> 
>>> On 16 Apr 2001 16:16:24 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
>>> <mickey at Vanille.de> wrote:
>>>>Steve Lamb <grey at despair.rpglink.com> wrote:
>>>>>>take place in just 4 days, especially when Easter, Passover, and US
>>>>>>taxes are going on at the same time?
>  
>>>>>    What, you think everyone who uses Python is Christian/Cathoic (et
>>>>>    al) and
>>>>> American?  Heck, only one of those three dates has any significance
>>>>> to me.
>  
>>Given the anecdote, you must be American, but judging by the original
>>post, I would have guessed (since you imply that you're neither
>>Christian nor American) that you must be Jewish.  So much for theory.
> 
>     How so?  If one of the three had any significance to me and
> Easter/Passover are linked through religion then it stands that the
> final option, American and tax day, is the one that would be
> significant.  I never implied that I wasn't any of them in the first
> sentence, just pointed out that not all Python programmers were all
> three at once.  ;)

You hadn't yet pointed out that "two of them are linked", and when you
said "you think everyone who uses Python is Christian/Catholic (et al)
and American", I took the et al. to refer to other Christian sects.  So:
if you mean to use yourself to refute the idea that all Python users are
American and Christian, you must be Jewish, since only three options were
given.

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