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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: daemon stories ( german customs )
To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 06:30:48 -0800 (PST)
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Wes Peters wrote:
> 
> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>  > I think people shouldn't be too put out by these occasional
> incidents.
>  > There are some good ones about texas rednecks and "we just wanted to
>  > know what the lord of darkness was doing on your chest, Maam?" which
>  > involve our little mascot and go back several decades.  If it proves
>  > anything at all, it's that there are still religious elements in
>  > various western societies who'd probably be a lot happier living in
>  > someplace like Iran and should probably move there at the first
>  > opportunity. :)
> 
> Yup.  I have a sticker in the back window of my car (actually a Toyota
> 4x4 with a shell) from my ISP.  They're pretty much a bunch of tech-
> heads stuck (by their own choice) here behind the "Zion Curtain."  Some

	"Zion Curtain."????????

	know of Zion Gate, Mount Zion, but not "Zion Curtain."

> of the locals don't take to kindly to my window sticker, which reads
> "God uses UNIX."  My fellow churchmembers don't seem to mind.  ;^)
> 
> Tangential story: the first two UNIX systems back at dear old
> Clyde/Raxco/Axent, which was chock full of BYU graduates, were named
> Ebed and Melech.  Two netdollars to the first contributor who say why
> they were given such odd names.  ;^)
> 

	transliteration form Hebrew words for slave, servant and
	king.
jmb