OFF TOPIC: What did Guido say?

Guyon Morée gumuz at looze.net
Wed Jun 25 06:08:09 EDT 2003


'wordt vervolgd' met Han Pekel

(to be continued)

"Roel Vanhout" <roel at riks.nl> wrote in message
news:mailman.1056529961.3292.python-list at python.org...
> He says, in Dutch, literally translated: I am Guido van Rossum and I
> imitate Woody Woodpecker (and then makes the Woody sound). The
> background to this is that there was a program on Dutch television, 10
> or more years ago, that was about cartoons and there was a part where
> kids (between something like 4 and 8 years old) could imitate their
> favourite cartoon character. They usually introduced themselves by
> saying their name, who they were imitating, and then did the imitation.
> It was very popular at the time - even after hearing the 1000th bad
> imitation of Donald Duck, there was something to it. It was something of
> a running joke at the time to imitate cartoon characters, usually
> introduced by saying one's name, to make the connection with the tv
> program. Can't remember what the program was called though, anyone?
>
> cheers,
>
> roel
>
>
> Carlos Moreira wrote:
> > So, what did Guido say in:
> >
> > http://www.python.org/~guido/guido.au
> >
> > I hear this a thousand times, every day (my co-workers
> > want to kill me :) ), and still can't undertand
> > Guido's words. I especially pay attention to the funny
> > noise in the end.
> >
> >      []'s
> >
> > Cadu
> > [...besides guido.au, I play: freesoftware-song by
> > Stallman, Bjarne Stroustrup pronounciation by B.
> > Stroustrup, Linux prnounciation by Linus Torwalds, and
> > the Free Pascal Anthem sung by my friends...]
> >
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