From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy)
Subject: [TUHS] "Oregano" and Unix wizards
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:21:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171103192129.2EA09219C4@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3769C2F5-7176-430B-B8AD-F67A469F6F79@gmail.com>
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.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-03 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-03 10:23 [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! Noel Chiappa
2017-11-03 11:20 ` arnold
2017-11-03 13:11 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-03 19:12 ` [TUHS] "Oregano" and Unix wizards Don Hopkins
2017-11-03 19:21 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2017-11-03 20:02 ` William Pechter
2017-11-03 19:26 ` [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! Toby Thain
2017-11-03 20:54 ` Arthur Krewat
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