4 Nov
2017
4 Nov
'17
2:02 a.m.
Another thing that comes to mind was my late wife's roommate when she
was a contractor at either Bell Labs, AT&T or Bellcore back in the
late 80's to 1990 or so...
There was a rumor about undercover Narcotics cops inside the facility
going through desks and such at night.
Her officemate, who was a non-drug user -- but concerned about civil
liberties and privacy put two plastic bags of unknown substances in
his desk.
One leafy substance named catnip -- containing catnip. One powdery
substance labeled sugar (which if I remember correctly was some kind
of confectioners sugar.
Shortly after that the substances disappeared from his drawer... ( I
think some personnel did shortly after that as well.)
I can imagine the results of the lab tests coming back. Perhaps this
info ran wide enough that some folks remembered this incident.
Bill
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On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
The only thing that isn't obviously some
sort of pun on an aspect of
Unix is a canister labeled Oregano in the foreground of the picture.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.unix.wizards/qkiqSJWgEPE/E5BwZYMvXwAJ
The oregano is reputedly referring to an incident in which one of
the original folks involved with BSD was hassled for coming across
the Canadian/U.S. border with a bag of what was assumed to be an
illegal substance, and turned out to be oregano.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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