Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrlnk!ncrstp!npdiss1!mercer From: mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Unix Feuds Keywords: goofy. . . Message-ID: <790@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> Date: 18 Dec 90 16:53:49 GMT References: <1990Dec12.163227.26158@nas.nasa.gov> Reply-To: mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) Organization: StPaul Lines: 71 In article <1990Dec12.163227.26158@nas.nasa.gov> smithwik@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (R. Michael Smithwick -- FSN) writes: :I suppose this is the best newsgroup for this nonsense. . . : :I recently picked up a copy of that wonderful "UNIX FEUDS" poster handed :out by UniTech at the recent Sun User's Group conference in San Jose. : :For the uninformed, the poster depicts two clashing medieval armies, :swords drawn, shields held high, fighting out Unix standards. One army :is for Osf and the other is UI. Standing in the middle is a wizard :trying to pull a sword out of a stone, and caught in front of him and :between the armies is a hapless user, ready to be done in. Well, the :poster is full of unix puns. In the background one guy is hitting :someone else over the head with a pipe. Someone else has a boot hanging :off of their sword. However, there are a few I can't quite figure out, :perhaps some more enlightened individual will have the answers. : :Behind the wizard is a deamon holding a fork. Two people, clearly :in pain are under his spell, one is biting his hand. What does this :mean? Our version is slightly different - the demon is hidden by the sleeve of the wizard. Still, daemon and fork should be plainly obvious. : :At the base of the stone are two rats, one whispering into the ear They're mice - get it? :of the other (possibly symbolizing security violations?). Next to :the rats is a shell chained to the stone. The meaning of the shell is obvious, chain less so. : :In the sky are 5 geese flying left to right. They're migrating. : :On the horizon is a small church. : In ours it is a small castle with an X-window. In front of it is a Trojan horse. There's also a man mounting or unmounting from a horse - shields embossed with bells (for AT&T), another emblazoned with a SUN, and a third marked xopen split by a file. There are trees and branches, an executioner wearing a mask, a scroll, a cat peeking from behind the stone, the soldiers are wearing mail, and a worm crawling out of an apple. The symbols I haven't figured out are the key on the wizard's ring and the stranged scalloped shaped emblem on his hat. I was also surprised that they missed one simple, obvious pun - a net. :I'm sure that there are more subtle puns beyond my comprehension, but :any light would be helpful. : :Anyway, the poster is destined to become a real classic. Get one if :you can. : : : >> mike smithwick << : :Any opinions are my own since nobody else would ever want them. : :"Colonize Cyberspace!" -- Dan Mercer NCR Network Products Division - Network Integration Services Reply-To: mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) "MAN - the only one word oxymoron in the English Language"