Question about Ubuntu and other Linux distributions as cellphone OS

Bret Busby bret at busby.net
Fri Nov 1 18:22:02 UTC 2024


On 2/11/24 01:34, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Sat, 2024-11-02 at 00:30 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 1/11/24 19:40, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2024-10-31 at 10:20 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
>>>> It might work one day
>>> In Germany we have a saying. "Man hat schon Pferde vor der Apotheke
>>> kotzen gesehen."
>> ?
> 
> Translated: "Horses have been seen vomiting in front of the pharmacy."
> 
> Horses can't actually throw up.
> 
> If a horse that can't actually throw up does so in front of a pharmacy
> that sells medication that could help the horse that is throwing up,
> then on top of the unlikelihood that a horse could throw up, it is also
> a relatively unlikely place for a horse to do so.
> 
> In other words, it is very unlikely that a horse will vomit and even
> less likely that a horse will vomit in front of a pharmacy. _But_
> supposedly this has already been observed ;).
> 

I expect that pharmacy assistants would be glad of that - that they can 
be confident that their employment does not include them being required 
or expected to clean up horse vomit from in front of the pharmacy where 
they are employed...

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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