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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Fun experiences with old mainframes (was Early non-Unix filesystems?)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 08:10:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160324121015.GD897@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160323232700.GC3766@eureka.lemis.com>

Greg 'groggy' Lehey scripsit:

> He arrived at the Causeway in Johore Bahru with his nice red turban
> on.  And the immigration official was a Sikh!  With a blue turban.  He
> said "what are you doing with a red turban?  Today's a blue turban
> day!".

(Just for the record, the remark itself was the trap:  there are no
turban colors associated with particular days.  Blue is associated
with learning, red with celebrations such as weddings.)

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Newbies always ask:
  "Elements or attributes?
Which will serve me best?"
  Those who know roar like lions;
  Wise hackers smile like tigers.         --a tanka, or extended haiku


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-24 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-23 20:47 Clem Cole
2016-03-23 23:27 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-23 23:46   ` Marc Rochkind
2016-03-24 12:10   ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-03-24 21:10     ` [TUHS] Turban colours (was: " Greg 'groggy' Lehey

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