From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:10:30 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] Turban colours (was: Fun experiences with old mainframes (was Early non-Unix filesystems?) In-Reply-To: <20160324121015.GD897@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20160323232700.GC3766@eureka.lemis.com> <20160324121015.GD897@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <20160324211030.GE3766@eureka.lemis.com> On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 8:10:15 -0400, John Cowan wrote: > 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.) Thanks. Yes, we also had serious doubts. We thought of at least two scenarios: first, that the whole story was a joke, and secondly that the immigration official smelt a rat when he saw somebody clean-shaven wearing a turban. I had many Sikh friends at the time, and I'm sure I would have asked one of them, but I don't recall the answer. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 181 bytes Desc: not available URL: