From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:21:29 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] "Oregano" and Unix wizards In-Reply-To: <3769C2F5-7176-430B-B8AD-F67A469F6F79@gmail.com> References: <20171103102329.A496B18C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <3769C2F5-7176-430B-B8AD-F67A469F6F79@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20171103192129.2EA09219C4@orac.inputplus.co.uk> 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