Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 06:30:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daemon stories ( german customs ) Message-ID: <199711301430.GAA12170@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3480FD6F.167EB0E7@xmission.com> from "Wes Peters" at Nov 29, 97 10:45:19 pm
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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
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