funny BSD road stories
Pat Lynch
somewhere backwards like that? well we've got a similar story.
LOrraine and I are on a road trip vacation, we drove out to Kingman AZ, by
way of Boulder CO (to visit a friend there) ON our way back, by way of
Rt. 40 to Rt. 25 to Boulder. We were at a truck stop in AZ btwn Flagstaff
and Gallup, NM when both of us, wearing our geeks shirts (FreeBSD shirt on
Lorraine, with our cute little CHucky) were getting some weird stares.
All of a sudden Lorraine hears on of the women behind the counter say
"Well, they're definitely not Mormons."
ROTFLMAO!
-Pat
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Brett Glass
with daemon shirts who were asked to leave a diner in western Texas
by some rather belligerent locals. Why? because they had images of the
"Prince of Darkness" on their shirts. Anyone have a copy of this classic?
--Brett
Joseph Scott
>
> Remember the person who got asked about her FreeBSD shirt in Texas or
> somewhere backwards like that? well we've got a similar story.
>
> LOrraine and I are on a road trip vacation, we drove out to Kingman AZ, by
> way of Boulder CO (to visit a friend there) ON our way back, by way of
> Rt. 40 to Rt. 25 to Boulder. We were at a truck stop in AZ btwn Flagstaff
> and Gallup, NM when both of us, wearing our geeks shirts (FreeBSD shirt on
> Lorraine, with our cute little CHucky) were getting some weird stares.
>
> All of a sudden Lorraine hears on of the women behind the counter say
> "Well, they're definitely not Mormons."
>
> ROTFLMAO!
Hehehehehehe. Does this mean Mormon FreeBSD users have to give up
thier FBSD Daemon T Shirts ? :-)
>
> -Pat
>
> FreeBSD - The only OS banned in Utah
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Oscar Bonilla
> I seem to recall a story, posted to the Net long ago, about a couple
> with daemon shirts who were asked to leave a diner in western Texas
> by some rather belligerent locals. Why? because they had images of the
> "Prince of Darkness" on their shirts. Anyone have a copy of this classic?
>
It's on Greg's Book. I'll see if I have a link to an online copy...
Regards,
-Oscar
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Mark Ovens
> On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:52:01AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> > I seem to recall a story, posted to the Net long ago, about a couple
> > with daemon shirts who were asked to leave a diner in western Texas
> > by some rather belligerent locals. Why? because they had images of the
> > "Prince of Darkness" on their shirts. Anyone have a copy of this classic?
> >
>
> It's on Greg's Book. I'll see if I have a link to an online copy...
>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [comp.org.usenix] A Great Daemon Story
From: Rob Kolstad <kol...@bsdi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: A Great Daemon Story
Linda Branagan is an expert on daemons. She has a T-shirt that
sports the daemon in tennis shoes that appears on the cover of the
4.3BSD manuals and The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD
UNIX Operating System by S. Leffler, M. McKusick, M. Karels, J.
Quarterman, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA 1989.
She tells the following story about wearing the 4.3BSD daemon
T-shirt: Last week I walked into a local ``home style cookin'
restaurant/watering hole'' in Texas to pick up a take-out order.
I spoke briefly to the waitress behind the counter, who told me
my order would be done in a few minutes.
So, while I was busy gazing at the farm implements hanging on the
walls, I was approached by two ``natives.'' These guys might just
be the original Texas rednecks.
``Pardon us, ma'am. Mind if we ask you a question?''
Well, people keep telling me that Texans are real friendly, so I
nodded. ``Are you a Satanist?'' Well, at least they didn't ask me
if I liked to party.
``Uh, no, I can't say that I am.''
``Gee, ma'am. Are you sure about that?'' they asked.
I put on my biggest, brightest Dallas Cowboys cheerleader
smile and said, ``No, I'm positive. The closest I've ever come
to Satanism is watching Geraldo.''
``Hmmm. Interesting. See, we was just wondering why it is you
have the lord of darkness on your chest there.''
I was this close to slapping one of them and causing a scene--then
I stopped and noticed the shirt I happened to be wearing that
day. Sure enough, it had a picture of a small, devilish-looking
creature that has for some time now been associated with a
certain operating system. In this particular represen- tation,
the creature was wearing sneakers.
They continued: ``See, ma'am, we don't exactly appreciate it when
people show off pictures of the devil. Especially when he's
lookin' so friendly.''
These idiots sounded terrifyingly serious.
Me: ``Oh, well, see, this isn't really the devil, it's just,
well, it's sort of a mascot.
Native: ``And what kind of football team has the devil as a mascot?''
Me: ``Oh, it's not a team. It's an operating--uh, a kind of computer.''
I figured that an ATM machine was about as much technology as these
guys could handle, and I knew that if I so much as uttered the word
``UNIX'' I would only make things worse.
Native: ``Where does this satanical computer come from?''
Me: ``California. And there's nothing satanical about it really.''
Somewhere along the line here, the waitress noticed my predicament--but
these guys probably outweighed her by 600 pounds, so all she
did was look at me sympathetically and run off into the kitchen.
Native: ``Ma'am, I think you're lying. And we'd appreciate it if
you'd leave the premises now.''
Fortunately, the waitress returned that very instant with my
order, and they agreed that it would be okay for me to actually
pay for my food before I left. While I was at the cash register,
they amused themselves by talking to each other.
Native #1: ``Do you think the police know about these devil
computers?''
Native #2: ``If they come from California, then the FBI oughta
know about 'em.''
They escorted me to the door. I tried one last time: ``You're
really blowing this all out of proportion. A lot of people use
this `kind of computers.' Universities, researchers, businesses.
They're actually very useful.'' Big, big, big mistake. I should
have guessed at what came next.
Native: ``Does the government use these devil computers?''
Me: ``Yes.''
Another big boo-boo.
Native: ``And does the government pay for 'em? With our tax
dollars?''
I decided that it was time to jump ship.
Me: ``No. Nope. Not at all. Your tax dollars never entered the
picture at all. I promise. No sir, not a penny. Our good
Christian congressmen would never let something like that
happen. Nope. Never. Bye.''
Texas. What a country.
> Regards,
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> -Oscar
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>
> I seem to recall a story, posted to the Net long ago, about a couple
> with daemon shirts who were asked to leave a diner in western Texas
> by some rather belligerent locals. Why? because they had images of the
> "Prince of Darkness" on their shirts. Anyone have a copy of this classic?
It should be also in the book of Greg (The complete FreeBSD) if I
remember well...
Ask Greg to know where he got it ...
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Brett Glass
>It should be also in the book of Greg (The complete FreeBSD) if I
>remember well...
Maybe Greg included it, but it's YEARS older than his book.
--Brett
Greg Lehey
> At 07:04 PM 9/16/99 +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
>
>> It should be also in the book of Greg (The complete FreeBSD) if I
>> remember well...
>
> Maybe Greg included it, but it's YEARS older than his book.
Correct. It was reproduced with appropriate attributions.
OTOH, the story of the original daemon T-shirt was first printed in my
book.
Greg
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