From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 17:20:47 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines? In-Reply-To: <20170201220848.GH880@mcvoy.com> References: <20170201204327.GU21797@yeono.kjorling.se> <20170201213331.GD880@mcvoy.com> <20170201220848.GH880@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, Larry McVoy wrote: > There was a phone in there and it would ring and a sales guy would pick > it up saying "Moshi, Moshi" which I took to mean "Hi" or "hello". > > It was always corporate calling to see how things were going. > > So one day I'm in there by myself and the phone rings and without thinking > about it (I don't speak Japanese so WTF was I thinking?), I pick it up > and say "Mushi, Mushi". Too which I get a stream of horrified Japanense > and I just hang up. > > The sales guys show later and I say "I answered a call for you". "Oh, > yeah, what did you say?" "Mushi, mushi". Stunned silence and then they > are rolling on the floor laughing. > > I'm going "What? What did I do?". > > They say "Corporate called to find out how things are going and the > software guy said 'bug, bug' and hung up". > > We all went out drinking that night, those sales guys were all right. > Seemed sort of cold before that but we were buds from there forward. > I'll bet you a pile of money somewhere there is a sales guy in Japan > who tells this story, probably not in a way that is flattering to me :) > > (Note this about 30 years ago and I can't remember if Moshi is hi or if it > is Mushi that is hi, but you get the idea). > > --larry "bug, bug" mcvoy > You were right - "moshi-moshi" is "hello" and "mushi" is bug. (I picked up a little bit of Japanese from 20 years of watching anime... lol) -uso.