As usual, when you make the effort to see them for what they are really like, people never live up to their reputations :)
<deraadt> wow, mickey is fixing cats. cut, pull, twist, tie, insert, sew, right?
<deraadt> meow meeeeooooow MRREOEAAWOOOWOWWWWWWWOWOOWOW
<deraadt> :-)
I highly doubt that anyone would expect that a chat transcript from a fairly insular group to be made public in this way decades later...
That's why it's a good anecdotal example that, despite their reputations in some quarters, OpenBSD devs are real human beings who even have fun!
EDIT: clarify in context of my GP post.
Are you saying that Theo isn't the asshole he's commonly made out to be?