Which flavor of ice cream is best for me?

[AgenT]

Obligatory quote, because every GNU/Linux user with experience has gone through this ordeal at least once:

New User: "Hi. I was wondering which flavor of ice cream I'll like the best."
Forum Person: "Umm... here's a list of available flavors. Try them out."
New User: "No, I just want you to tell me what I'll like the best."
Forum Person: "I'm sorry... that's just something you'll have to find out on your own."
New User: "You're not helping me!"

[llivv]

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[AgenT]

And the lucky ones get to hear something similar again after they logout of the forum.

Lucky me for being unlucky.

[rickh]

I tell them to go to icecreamwatch.org and study other people's impressions of the various flavors.

I would simply tell them vanilla is the best, but it always irritates me when some idiot standing around suggests chocolate instead.

[AgenT]

I tell them to go to icecreamwatch.org and study other people's impressions of the various flavors.

I would simply tell them vanilla is the best, but it always irritates me when some idiot standing around suggests chocolate instead.

Good one!

[llivv]

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[AgenT]

Hot Fudge melts the ice cream away though. This is not good.

[hash]

havent you heard: enjoy your icecream before it melts??

[Jackiebrown]

I would simply tell them vanilla is the best, but it always irritates me when some idiot standing around suggests chocolate instead.

Thank You for Smoking:

Nick Naylor: -OK, let's say that you're defending chocolate, and I'm defending vanilla. Now if I were to say to you: 'Vanilla is the best flavour ice-cream', you'd say:
Joey Naylor: No, chocolate is.
Nick Naylor: Exactly, but you can't win that argument... so, I'll ask you: so you think chocolate is the end all and the all of ice-cream, do you?
Joey Naylor: It's the best ice-cream, I wouldn't order any other.
Nick Naylor: -Oh! So it's all chocolate for you is it?
Joey Naylor: Yes, chocolate is all I need.
Nick Naylor: Well I need more than chocolate, and for that matter I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom. And choice when it comes to our ice-cream, and that Joey Naylor, that is the defintion of liberty.
Joey Naylor: But that's not what we're talking about
Nick Naylor: -Ah! But that's what I'm talking about.
Joey Naylor: ...but you didn't prove that vanilla was the best...
Nick Naylor: I didn't have to. I proved that you're wrong, and if you're wrong I'm right.
Joey Naylor: But you still didn't convince me
Nick Naylor: It's that I'm not after you. I'm after them." ***Points into the crowd***

[ghostdawg]

Blackwalnut....

[detly]

Hey ICECREAM ppls... what gives?!!!!

I kept hearing about this thing called "Icecream" that you can eat instead of Marshmallows™!! So I went and found a friend with a two-year-old tub of strawberry icecream and scooped it out. I tried eating it, but it keeps falling on the ground!!! My friend said it might be a problem with the "cone" crumbling — WTF? I never had these problems with Marshmallows™!!!! Help me!!!!

[sinical]

Whiskey or Beer flavoured for me

[Lux]

New User: "Hi. I was wondering which flavor of ice cream I'll like the best."
Forum Person: "Umm... here's a list of available flavors. Try them out."

No no no. A much better answer is: "Try apt-cache search icecream." That will teach the newbie to use the available tools for searching the information they need.

[AgenT]

havent you heard: enjoy your icecream before it melts??

But I want ice cream to be exactly like marshmellows!

[rickh]

But I want ice cream to be exactly like marshmellows!

Stick with marshmallows, dummy, and while you're at it learn to spell it right.

Ice Cream is not Marshmallows.

[Lavene]

Code: Select all

~$ apt-cache search --names-only icecream
icecream - Radio stream download utility

[garrincha]

Speaking about food...

Code: Select all

$ apt-cache search --names-only tea
kteatime - KDE utility for making a fine cup of tea
$ apt-cache search --names-only ketchup
ketchup - update utility for linux-kernel sources
$ apt-cache search --names-only burger
burgerspace - Avoid evil foodstuffs and make burgers
$ apt-cache search --names-only egg
egg - Tamago Ver. 4 -- EGG Input Method Architecture for Emacsen
$ apt-cache search --names-only juice
juice - playlist editor / player frontend
$ apt-cache search --names-only orange
orange - extracts CAB files from self-extracting installers
$ apt-cache search --names-only apple
apple2 - Apple ][ Emulator
$ apt-cache search --names-only sugarplum
sugarplum - an automated and intelligent spam trap/cache-poisone
$ apt-cache search --names-only honey
tinyhoneypot - Small honeypot to trap attackers
$ apt-cache search --names-only chicken
chicken-bin - Simple Scheme-to-C compiler - compiler
$ apt-cache search --names-only beef
beef - flexible BrainFuck interpreter
$ apt-cache search --names-only fish
bluefish - advanced Gtk+ HTML editor
cl-blowfish - Common Lisp Blowfish encryption
fish - a friendly interactive shell
kfish - fish panel applet for KDE
sawfish - a window manager for X11
$ apt-cache search --names-only garlic
garlic - A visualization program for biomolecules
$ apt-cache search --names-only tomatoe
tomatoes - I Have No Tomatoes - tomato smashing game
$ apt-cache search --names-only date
datefudge - Fake the system date
dates - a calendar optimised for embedded devices

[llivv]

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[Bro.Tiag]

To the True Ice Cream Connoisseur their is only one Flavour, Vanilla.

[GMouse]

If you're new to Ice Cream, then you should probably go with Vanilla. It works for most people without any problems. But, most people end up wanting something a little more tailored to their own particular needs. In that case, you could try chocolate, coffee, toffee, cookies n cream, mint, chocolate chip, mint chocolate chip, very berry, cinnamon, superman, butter pecan, neopolitan, strawberry, cherry garcia, rocky road, green tea, ginger, peanut butter, coconut, or lime. Personally, I prefer rum's superior neurotransmitter management system, even if it does suffer from a lack of widespread support among ice cream stand architectures.