Do You Agree That Kubuntu Should be Renamed - If So, What Name?

[SteveRiley]

# = crunch
! = bang

Thus: CrunchBang Linux.

Also:

' = tick
` = birk, blip
^ = hat
* = splat, glob
/ = slash (common)
\ = whack, slope (backslash, who uses that? lol)
$ = buck
% = grapes
< = sucks
> = blows
( = wane
) = wax
? = quiz
@= whirl
[ = bra
] = ket
{ = leftit
} = rytit
~ = twidle

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[dragonbite]

It did just occur to me that #! switched from Ubuntu to Debian and did not change the name.

I, personally, think that changing the name to some obviously very dynamic, forward leaning name would bring new people to Kubuntu, but...

I don't know if #! lost people or what.

woodsmoke

A difference is that #! does not have anything as obvious as part of its name relating to an existing, well known Linux distribution so changing the underpinnings means nothing to anybody unless you dig into the technical aspects and even then they both use .deb packages so the difference is not so great as to scare people off.

Changing the underpinning of Kubuntu may force a rename as well, and thus a new distribution is born, a fresh babe.

[Teunis]

It makes me think of chicken cordon bleu, or would it be Kordon Bleu? Or KorDon blEu?

Cordon Blue: often based on chicken meat.
Dragon: form of dinosaur remembered by earliest man.
Chicken: the living descendants of dinosaurs.
Dragonbite: what dragons eat.

.:Our dragonbite: A cannibal

[SteveRiley]

Cordon Blue: often based on chicken meat.
Dragon: form of dinosaur remembered by earliest man.
Chicken: the living descendants of dinosaurs.
Dragonbite: what dragons eat.

Potato soup and chicken!

[woodsmoke]

well to tak a play off of #!

How about #ers&chips! lol

woodsmoke

[dragonbite]

Potato soup and chicken!

Now I have that song stuck in my head! At least this ought to make the company Christams "party" more interesting.

[GreyGeek]

Wow! That's the most weird video I've seen in years!

[andystmartin]

This reminds me of a poem from long ago:

< > ! * ' ' #
^ " ` $ $ -
! * = @ $ _
% * < > ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , , SYSTEM HALTED

Translation:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar underscore,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.

[woodsmoke]

Dragonbyte that video is HILARIOUS!

And for people who have never been around real, working poets:

a) The "modern" way to do poetry is loosely called: "Do what you dam# well please, get a government grant or teach in a college and you will have part of the bell curve love it!.....and also not have to do anything much to have enough money to be comfortable( no poet expects to get rich) "

b) the "previous way" ... to which the "modern way" is merely a reaction...... "I can't do what those STUPID OLD PEOPLE did BACK THEN! I'm.....modern! I'm progressive (meaning "to go past what previous people did, or do it differently)".

i) The people who did poetry "back then" made up rhyming schemes: a-b-a-b-c, or such as a-b-c-a-b-c-c-b-a-c-b-a.
or
ii) people who did poetry "back then" made poems using a rhyme scheme.

c) A really GOOD poet has such an ENCYCLOPEDIC knowledge of "verbiage" that ending a stanza with a "word that fit" just came naturally.

d) "not quite so good poets" have an excellent knowledge of verbiage and could easily come up with stanza that had rhyming words most of the time...

e) the REST of the time, they did EXACTLY what is illustrated in that video! They would beat the air, beat the table, beat their head with their fists, throw paper, pen and ink against the raging sky, screaming out, dancing around, and sometimes just sitting calmly staring off into space and if you interrupted them..... nothing until they threw an ink pot at you.

Eventually the magic word appeared was applied to paper and the rest is history, what you read in Literature books because it was good and everybody could agree with it being good.

You didn't necessarily LIKE reading poetry in second form, but at least you could say that it.....rhymed....

LOL......If you do not want to know how sausage is made do NOT watch a poet writing!

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar underscore,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.

I was reading that and thought...boy, the meter sounds awfully familiar. Then it hit me: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star"!

[woodsmoke]

LOL
SR,

you may be a poet

and do not know it!

Please, kind sir, to your feet look down.......

and without a frown....

share with us...are they.... LONGFELLOWS....?

if yes then, indeed, you ARE a poet....

but did not know it!



wooda-a-b-b-d-a-asmoke

[SteveRiley]

e) the REST of the time, they did EXACTLY what is illustrated in that video! They would beat the air, beat the table, beat their head with their fists, throw paper, pen and ink against the raging sky, screaming out, dancing around, and sometimes just sitting calmly staring off into space and if you interrupted them..... nothing until they threw an ink pot at you.

The music in that video is from Carl Orff's setting of Carmina Burana, specifically the closing movement "O Fortuna." It's probably the most widely recognized work of twentieth century classical music, appearing in many commercials, movie trailers, and convertibles zooming down country roads on warm summer evenings.

We performed a wind band arrangement of the cantata two weeks ago in the Seattle Symphonic Band; what a blast. My first encounter with Carmina Burana was as high school junior in the Columbus Youth Symphony, where we performed the complete original orchestral setting with full percussion (two pianos!), large choir, boys choir, and soloists. You can imagine that, as high schoolers, we were all thoroughly engrossed in the English translations of the text, as it's all about drinking, gambling, and lust

The linked video is one of many in the "Misheard Lyrics" meme -- there are hundreds of these covering numerous classical and popular works. They are all hysterious.

[woodsmoke]

Oh I hate you I hate you I hate you! THOSE THINGS ARE GOING TO BE RUNNING AROUND IN MY EMPTY SKULL FOR DAYS!!!!

WHERE IS MY RUM!!! FORGET THE COKE!!

lol

no, really, thanks that is a kewl link, not for my sanity, but a kewl link!

woodsmoke

[richb]

I must be a completely uncultured boob, I do not get that video at all.

[woodsmoke]

ummmm I think that maybe large amounts of alcohol might help!

woodsmoke