From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 27 6: 6: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DD737B4CF; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9RD66826696; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:06:06 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Douglas Adams, ApacheCon, and horns aplenty Message-ID: <20001027060606.W28123@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001027114650.A1717@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001027114650.A1717@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 11:46:51AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nik Clayton [001027 04:14] wrote: > Hi guys, > > Thought some of you might get a kick out of this. > > We (i.e., BSDi) were at ApacheCon in London Tuesday/Wednesday of this week. > > The keynote speaker on Tuesday night was Douglas Adams. > > I wasn't in the auditorium to witness it myself, but apparently he stopped > in mid-sentence part way through his presentation, and in somewhat > incredulous tones said > > Er, are people wearing *horns* in here? > > which prompted much laughter from the conference goers. > > I'm just kicking myself that I didn't have the presence of mind to hand him > a pair before he started. . . What percentage of the audiance/conferece were wearing the horns? Just wonderdering how much of a presense we had. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message