From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 10:37:28 -0400 Subject: Unix witticisms In-Reply-To: <00ff01d33de5$fe5ae050$fb10a0f0$@ronnatalie.com> References: <1507105846.59d49c3693e82@www.paradise.net.nz> <7637D3DE-57D3-447B-AF40-D6644C1BBFDA@gmail.com> <00ff01d33de5$fe5ae050$fb10a0f0$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Ron Natalie wrote: > At the 83 USENIX Sun handed out buttons that said the "The Joy of UNIX." > Peter Langston thought that was a bit conceited on Bill's part, so he made > up buttons for the next show that read "The PSL of UNIX", "The DMR of UNIX," > etc... and handed them out. I still have the Joy of UNIX button, but I > lost my "Ron of UNIX" button shortly after the show. > > The "is a trademark of bell labs" generated lots of jokes over the year. > I have somewhere a button that says "Eunuchs are a hallmark of the Ottoman > Empire." At one of the early UUGs someone tried to make "UNIX is a > Trademark of Bell Labs" pencils except the custom pencil place only allowed > 18 letters or something so the pencils just ended up saying "UNIX is a > Trademark." I'm not sure I've ever come across another Trademark that > the footnote status was as widely propagated as UNIX's. AT&T's lawyers > even got up at one of the conferences (in a talk about licensing changes or > such) and thanked the community for defending the trademark. A running gag throughout the Mel Brooks movie, "Spaceballs" is recurring product spots for the film's promotional materials ("Spaceballs: the toiler paper" was my favorite: https://i.pinimg.com/474x/c3/53/c3/c353c3a52c70a66b2d7cf456756a361c--movie-drinking-games-s-movies.jpg). This sounds similar in both character and execution. - Dan C.