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On 12/20/2017 06:06 PM, chris@bingosnet.co.uk wrote: > > Death looked at the sacks. > > It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of > toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they > really contained, always appeared to have sticking out > of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of > colorful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a > drum and a red-and-white candy cane. The actual > contents always turned out to be something a bit > garish and costing $5.99. > > Death had investigated one or two. There had been a > Real Agatean Ninja, for example, with Fearsome > Death Grip, and a Captain Carrot One-Man Night > Watch with a complete wardrobe of toy weapons, each > of which cost as much as the original wooden doll in > the first place. > > Mind you, the stuff for the girls was just as > depressing. It seemed to be nearly all horses. Most of > them were grinning. Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin. > > Any horse that was grinning was planning something. > > -- "Hogfather" - Terry Pratchett > > We are festively mirthful to announce version 27.7, > the 8th development release of version 27 of Perl 5. > > You will soon be able to download Perl 5.27.7 from your > favorite CPAN mirror or find it at: > > https://metacpan.org/release/BINGOS/perl-5.27.7/ > Is there some problem with the CPAN mirroring system? As of the time of this message -- 13-1/2 hours from the announcement -- the tarballs and md5.txt, etc. files have yet to appear at, e.g., ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/5.0/ . Thank you very much. Jim KeenanThread Previous | Thread Next