2 Jan
2015
2 Jan
'15
6:46 a.m.
And nobody thought to pronounce the word UNIX (EUNUCHS) to the Very Reverend Baptist-folk?
:)
That would've made it even funnier!
Quoting scj(a)yaccman.com:
Oh that brings back memories! It seems that every
Baptist read Usenix
as
Unisex (Freud would have something to say about that...). Families with
children would pass up an elevator rather than get on it with Usenix
folks...
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Love it. IIRC that was the conference a number of
us with BSD daemon
t-shirts were accosted for the wearing them.
A story I like to tell was in the early 1980s at the Toronto USENIX.
This
was just as when the US was going through AIDS
reaction similar to
the
current ebola over-worries. I was wearing a
"Sex, Drugs & UNIX"
button
when I got on the hotel elevator with Mike
Krueger when your basic
midwest
family of 4 or 5 got on at the same time. The
mother sees my button
and
asks, what's "UNIX." Krueger looks
at her and replies: "It's like AIDS
--
only worse."
She immediately takes her kids and cowers in the corner while I'm
alternating being wanting to kick Krueger and laughing.
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Ronald Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com>
wrote:
> A prosperous New Years to all us old UNIX farts.
>
> Years ago the USENIX conference was in Atlanta. It was a stark
> contrast
> between us and the Southern Baptists who were in town for their
> conference
> as well (punctuated at some goofball Baptist standing up in the
middle
> of
> one of the restaurants to sing God Bless America or some such).
>
> Anyhow, right before the conference someone (I think it was Dennis)
made
> some comment about nobody ever having asked
him for a cast of his
> genitals. A couple of friends decided we needed to issue genital
> casting
> kits to certain of the UNIX notables. I went out to an art supply
> store
> and bought plaster, paper cups, popsicle sticks to mix with, etcâ¦
> Gould
> computers let me use one of their booth machines and a printer to
print
> out
> the instructions. I purloined some bags from the hotel. It was
> pointed
> out that you need vaseline in order for the plaster to not stick to
the
> skin. Great, I head into the hotel gift shop
and grab ten tiny jars
> of
> vaseline. As I plop these on the counter at the cashier, she looks
at
me
for a minute and then announcesâ¦
I guess yâall arenât with the baptists.
People took it pretty tongue in cheek when they were presented. All
except Redman who flew off the handle.
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