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If you're curious to know more about RMS for some reason this is fun to browse through: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developer...

"I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up."

I really want to know what horrific experience RMS had with breakfast in the past such that you can't even mention it to him!!

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RMS is legendary for not getting up before the crack of noon. "Breakfast" is for "mornings". he has neither.

Is that really what he means though? Most people use the word "breakfast" to refer to the first meal of the day (or lack thereof) eaten within a few hours of waking up.

Also the type of food. If you sleep in on a Saturday until noon, you'll probably tend to want breakfast food when you first wake up.

The time of day is far behind those two factors for what constitutes breakfast in popular usage.

> If you sleep in on a Saturday until noon, you'll probably tend to want breakfast food when you first wake up.

It's 9am on a Saturday here and I just ate two slices of cold pizza. Not everyone desires "breakfast food" first thing in the moring. :)

Of course I wasn't saying that applies in every single case. I even double-qualified that part ("probably tend to"), but you still responded with "not everyone." I give up. :)

"Among English speakers, "breakfast" can be used to refer to [the first meal of the day] or to refer to a meal composed of traditional breakfast foods (such as eggs, oatmeal and sausage) served at any time of day." [1]

Even Wikipedia doesn't have a strict definition. I propose a standards committee meet to disambiguate this once and for all.

[1.] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast

Whoops. Sorry I did not read it that way. :)

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