From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pechter@gmail.com (William Pechter) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 16:02:19 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] "Oregano" and Unix wizards In-Reply-To: <20171103192129.2EA09219C4@orac.inputplus.co.uk> References: <20171103102329.A496B18C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <3769C2F5-7176-430B-B8AD-F67A469F6F79@gmail.com> <20171103192129.2EA09219C4@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Message-ID: Another thing that comes to mind was my late wife's roommate when she was a contractor at either Bell Labs, AT&T or Bellcore back in the late 80's to 1990 or so... There was a rumor about undercover Narcotics cops inside the facility going through desks and such at night. Her officemate, who was a non-drug user -- but concerned about civil liberties and privacy put two plastic bags of unknown substances in his desk. One leafy substance named catnip -- containing catnip. One powdery substance labeled sugar (which if I remember correctly was some kind of confectioners sugar. Shortly after that the substances disappeared from his drawer... ( I think some personnel did shortly after that as well.) I can imagine the results of the lab tests coming back. Perhaps this info ran wide enough that some folks remembered this incident. Bill -- d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now! pechter-at-gmail.com On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > 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