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Code name "Beefy Miracle"? And the next one is "Spherical Cow"? Why the sudden obsession with bovines?


The names that were voted on and how they fared-

    Votes :: Name
    -------------------------------
    1359 :: Spherical Cow
    1087 :: Halva
    1072 :: Chamoy
    1035 :: Pamukkale
    964 :: Tandoori Chicken
    930 :: Frankfurter
    821 :: Pop Soda
    536 :: Ketchy Ketchup
From http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-April...


Spherical cow is a physics instruction reference (consider a spherical cow...). Beefy miracle is just them being weird though I think.


In case you're wondering why the logo for Beefy Miracle is a hot dog:

http://beefymiracle.org/history.html




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