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Ryan Cartwright: Ryan Cartwright is Head of IT for Contact a Family, a UK National charity for families with disabled children where they make significant use of free software. He is also a free software advocate and you might find him on the GLLUG mailing list. Views posted here are his own - sadly.
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I don't get this!
Submitted by bogdanbiv on Tue, 2008-05-27 05:01.
Vote!While the other creation under the label "Bizarre Cathedral" were easy to understand, I don't get this one. I am not a native English speaker so that might be the problem, but still...
What is that in the third section? "FREE SOFT D...KS"
explaining the joke
Submitted by Ryan Cartwright on Tue, 2008-05-27 08:34.
Vote!I always feel that if I have to explain the joke then the strip has failed but in this case I can see the problem for non-native English speakers.
The text on the poster in the third panel is “Free Soft Drinks”. Perhaps it’s a British thing but a soft drink here is — usually — some kind of non-fizzy fruit flavoured drink, in Britain this would be generically be called squash but I guess cordial is a similar thing.
The idea of the strip is that things RMS read in kindergarten/nursery influenced his later life. So we have :
Okay it loses it when the joke is written down but that’s why I don’t like explaining jokes :o)
hope this helps anyway
Ryan
About the comments..
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2008-05-27 05:55.
Vote!Hi,
I will let Ryan explain the joke. However, please email me with the details for the comment problem -- just generic "it's broken" won't take me very far! email me on "merc" followed by "@" and then "mobily1.com".
Bye,
Merc.
test comment
Submitted by bogdanbiv on Tue, 2008-05-27 07:26.
Vote!test comment
I'm testing FSM site in Firefox 2.0.0.14.
Works from here!