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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mOOOO and down with the G !!!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

marcus0263 wrote:
Tolstoi wrote:
Cows are cool. Daemons and penguins are lame...


Only thing Cows are good for is on my plate or wearing their skin ;-)


No no! They're also good for hurling your villagers into the ocean and then retrieving them, and destroying the village crops and buildings with explosive poop! And also building things and then throwing giant rocks at it before pooping on the crushed remains. :shock:

Also it can eat people despite being a herbivore.

And presumably poop them out later.

(Yes, I chose a Cow for my Avatar when I (tried to) play Black and White... Apparently I am not a very good giant-god-animal trainer :cry:)
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyker wrote:
marcus0263 wrote:
Tolstoi wrote:
Cows are cool. Daemons and penguins are lame...


Only thing Cows are good for is on my plate or wearing their skin ;-)


No no! They're also good for hurling your villagers into the ocean and then retrieving them, and destroying the village crops and buildings with explosive poop! And also building things and then throwing giant rocks at it before pooping on the crushed remains. :shock:

Also it can eat people despite being a herbivore.

And presumably poop them out later.

(Yes, I chose a Cow for my Avatar when I (tried to) play Black and White... Apparently I am not a very good giant-god-animal trainer :cry:)


We can not have larry drop exploding poop everywhere. That would scare off the newbies ^_^
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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We can not have larry drop exploding poop everywhere. That would scare off the newbies ^_^

Yes, bit scatalogical and not appropriate! Having said that, he could wear a methane collector to fuel his motorbike.. ;P
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:03 pm    Post subject: The Cow... Reply with quote

I for one welcome our Cow Overlords and their luscious udders of love.

Squirt some of the gentoo milk into my mouth!

-Been a long time gentoo user... best forums, don't get into the dev politics...
-I think their style, mascot, name all fits together quite well.

Ubuntu = An african word for I can't install gentoo...

Thank You Gentoo Devs, Website Maintainers, and yes Larry too.

-D
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:05 pm    Post subject: Re: The Cow... Reply with quote

dansehl wrote:
Ubuntu = An african word for I can't install gentoo...

lol
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:41 pm    Post subject: Re: The Cow... Reply with quote

Adekoba wrote:
dansehl wrote:
Ubuntu = An african word for I can't install gentoo...

lol


Yes haha xD good one.


And SteveL is on to something... motorbike? Larry on a chopper! 8)
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, really. The cow's cool, don't ditch it.

http://www.gentoo.org/images/backgrounds/gentoo-abducted-1152x864.png

I _love_ that WP!

There's another picture... taken after Larry's operation

http://www.arturaz.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/abucted_a0.png

Poor ol' Larry, not again :D
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:50 am    Post subject: Re: The Cow... Reply with quote

dansehl wrote:
Ubuntu = An african word for I can't install gentoo...

bulls eye :P my friend did this three weeks ago :lol:
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:04 am    Post subject: not orignal Reply with quote

Not sure where I read that, but yes it's funny as hell, but I can not take credit for it!

Ubuntu = An African word for I can't install Gentoo

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think this issue has been given the proper attention, considering its importance. We really need to make a mascot that is prominent enough to fend off the ubuntu circle-thingy.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What about an upside down cow?
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vash63 wrote:
I don't think this issue has been given the proper attention, considering its importance.


I hope that's sarcasm :twisted:
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm using Gentoo Linux for about 2 years, but I didn't use this forum very much (sorry :oops: ) and I never worried about gentoo's mascot (it's almost invisible) until I found this topic. I started to read all messages posted here (I'm not very busy today :P ) and now I have to write my opinion.

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Gentoo is a penguin, so gentoo's mascot should be a penguin!

Are you really sure?

IMHO the best advertising for a product is not to say what is that product, but is to say who use that product.

Read carefully Gentoo poster at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml, did you?
"Larry the Cow was a bit frustrated with Linux. The latest distros seemed to be just a bunch of the same old stuff. Nothing new -- nothing innovative. Then Larry tried Gentoo Linux. ... ... And he liked it."

So Larry ISN'T Gentoo, while Larry USES Gentoo!
If Gentoo Linux distro is so good that even a (as I read here) lame|transvestite|sexually confused|stupid|gay|Transexual cow can use it (sorry if I missed some attribute :P ), why cannot you? Are you worse than Larry?

GO LARRY GO!

Why do somebody want to change "G" logo? IMHO it's perfect. "G" is the logo, Larry the mascot: don't mix them.

About the "UFO" guy, I always considered it as Gentoo Bugzilla's mascot. It's there to catch bugs, isn't it?

After that, I like Baby Gnu and Baby Tux: they are so nice. Can someone draw a 3d Baby Larry? (I'm not so skilled) He would be very nice too.

Finally a question: where is Larry the Cow's history? Why Larry? Why a cow? I can't find any info about him.

Now I go: I have to get Larry the Cow more visible on my computer :wink:


PS: sorry for my english.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

*Cough* Moo!
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rcasta wrote:

After that, I like Baby Gnu and Baby Tux: they are so nice. Can someone draw a 3d Baby Larry? (I'm not so skilled) He would be very nice too.


People who love Larry hate "sweet" baby versions of mascots, even worse in 3D ...urghh
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

man, i thought linux was a Penguin. so.. gentoo linux would undoubtedly be a gentoo penguin.
but no, we have a gentoo cow, what the hell is a gentoo cow? no such thing. but oh well. i can live with the cow. but it should be a penguin
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mario18 wrote:
man, i thought linux was a Penguin. so.. gentoo linux would undoubtedly be a gentoo penguin.
but no, we have a gentoo cow, what the hell is a gentoo cow? no such thing. but oh well. i can live with the cow. but it should be a penguin


It's just perception. Who said that a penguin is called penguin?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mantaar wrote:
No, really. The cow's cool, don't ditch it.

http://www.gentoo.org/images/backgrounds/gentoo-abducted-1152x864.png

I _love_ that WP!

There's another picture... taken after Larry's operation

http://www.arturaz.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/abucted_a0.png

Poor ol' Larry, not again :D


would be really cool if there would be a wallpaper in 3d and with the ufo and larry(bugs.gentoo.org)

i would do it myself if i would be skilled enough
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Probably been mentioned before in here but the G logo for Gentoo just reminds me of a retarded Pacman, took me a while to realize that it is really meant to be a g.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tolstoi wrote:
mOOOO and down with the G !!!

I second that!!!



MOOOOOOOOOOO
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

moo :?:
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

EXPLANATION

FOR WHY A COW IS GENTOO'S MASCOT

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(for n00bs)

It has horns.

get it?

Like Beastie.

--> drobbins stole portage from BSD. --> horny mascot.

A penguin with horns would look stupid.

What other animal has horns?

--> cow.

;-)
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How can you not like Larry!!!?!?!!!1!!shift+1!!

Look at him staring at you lovingly with those lovely cow-eyes!

8O = CUTE!
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tolstoi wrote:
...It's just perception. Who said that a penguin is called penguin?

Are you an artist or something? There usually is a reason why words this old are the way they are.

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2000/1/penguinsthinice.cfm
"the word "penguin" derives either from the Latin word pinguis, meaning fat, or the Welsh words pen gwyn, meaning "white head." Both names probably first described a flightless bird that is not a penguin at all the now-extinct great auk. The great auk, a relation to the flying puffins and other auks alive today, was harvested to extinction for its fat by 1844. Before then, the black-and-white seabird was familiar quarry for people living along North Atlantic coasts. Neither auks nor penguins had white heads, but fishermen weren't necessarily focused on such details, so most etymologists stick to the Welsh words as a probable origin for the name. European explorers probing mysterious southern waters stumbled upon true penguins as early as the late 1400s, when the first penguin reference was penned off Africa's southern coast during one of Vasco da Gama's voyages. Today, scientists refer to birds as penguins only if they belong to the family Spheniscidaethe only flightless aquatic birds."

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