Re: Unix witticisms

At the 83 USENIX Sun handed out buttons that said the "The Joy of UNIX." Peter Langston thought that was a bit conceited on Bill's part, so he made up buttons for the next show that read "The PSL of UNIX", "The DMR of UNIX," etc... and handed them out. I still have the Joy of UNIX button, but I lost my "Ron of UNIX" button shortly after the show. The "is a trademark of bell labs" generated lots of jokes over the year. I have somewhere a button that says "Eunuchs are a hallmark of the Ottoman Empire." At one of the early UUGs someone tried to make "UNIX is a Trademark of Bell Labs" pencils except the custom pencil place only allowed 18 letters or something so the pencils just ended up saying "UNIX is a Trademark." I'm not sure I've ever come across another Trademark that the footnote status was as widely propagated as UNIX's. AT&T's lawyers even got up at one of the conferences (in a talk about licensing changes or such) and thanked the community for defending the trademark. There was a contest back on UNIX-WIZARDS in the day to generate new errno codes. My favorite was ELECTROLUX - Your code needs cleaning up. A joke issue of the Computation Center at UT Austin's newsletter (Universally Plexus at Autism) had an item about UNIX Pipes not permitted in non-smoking areas. I think that was also the source of the "Cannot fork-- Try again during lunch" quote.