here are some nice words that i would like to share with everyone
gallant
adj.
- Smartly or boldly stylish; dashing: a gallant feathered hat; cut a gallant figure at the coronation.
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- Unflinching in battle or action; valiant: put up a gallant resistance to the attackers.
- Nobly or selflessly resolute: made a gallant attempt to save his friend’s reputation.
- Stately; majestic.
- # (gə-lănt’, -länt’)
- Courteously attentive especially to women; chivalrous.
- Flirtatious; amorous.
gnu
n.
Either of two large African antelopes (Connochaetes gnou or C. taurinus) having a drooping mane and beard, a long tufted tail, and curved horns in both sexes. Also called wildebeest.
that is all.
From the devil’s dictionary:
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
A hunter from Kew caught a distant view
Of a peacefully meditative gnu,
And he said: “I’ll pursue, and my hands imbrue
In its blood at a closer interview.”
But that beast did ensue and the hunter it threw
O’er the top of a palm that adjacent grew;
And he said as he flew: “It is well I withdrew
Ere, losing my temper, I wickedly slew
That really meritorious gnu.”
—Jarn Leffer
patrick: sounds quite like my friend’s most recent attempt to install ubuntu :)
Yeah. Maybe the next Ubuntu release name – Ubuntu 7.10 “Gallant Gnu”