[TUHS] Happy New Year and an amusing story from the past

[Clem Cole]

Love it.  IIRC that was the conference a number of us with BSD daemon
t-shirts were accosted for the wearing them.

A story I like to tell was in the early 1980s at the Toronto USENIX.  This
was just as when the US was going through AIDS reaction similar to the
current ebola over-worries.  I was wearing a "Sex, Drugs & UNIX" button
when I got on the hotel elevator with Mike Krueger when your basic midwest
family of 4 or 5 got on at the same time.   The mother sees my button and
asks, what's "UNIX." Krueger looks at her and replies:  "It's like AIDS --
only worse."

She immediately takes her kids and cowers in the corner while I'm
alternating being wanting to kick Krueger and laughing.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:

> A prosperous New Years to all us old UNIX farts.
>
> Years ago the USENIX conference was in Atlanta.    It was a stark contrast
> between us and the Southern Baptists who were in town for their conference
> as well (punctuated at some goofball Baptist standing up in the middle of
> one of the restaurants to sing God Bless America or some such).
>
> Anyhow, right before the conference someone (I think it was Dennis) made
> some comment about nobody ever having asked him for a cast of his
> genitals.   A couple of friends decided we needed to issue genital casting
> kits to certain of the UNIX notables.    I went out to an art supply store
> and bought plaster, paper cups, popsicle sticks to mix with, etc…   Gould
> computers let me use one of their booth machines and a printer to print out
> the instructions.   I purloined some bags from the hotel.   It was pointed
> out that you need vaseline in order for the plaster to not stick to the
> skin.    Great, I head into the hotel gift shop and grab ten tiny jars of
> vaseline.   As I plop these on the counter at the cashier, she looks at me
> for a minute and then announces…
>
> I guess y’all aren’t with the baptists.
>
> People took it pretty tongue in cheek when they were presented.    All
> except Redman who flew off the handle.
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