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
next prev 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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