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

[Wesley Parish]

And nobody thought to pronounce the word UNIX (EUNUCHS) to the Very Reverend Baptist-folk? :)

That would've made it even funnier!

Quoting scj at yaccman.com:

> Oh that brings back memories! It seems that every Baptist read Usenix
> as
> Unisex (Freud would have something to say about that...). Families with
> children would pass up an elevator rather than get on it with Usenix
> folks...
> 
> 
> > 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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