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From: howie@cunixc.columbia.edu (Howie Kaye)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX Magic Poster
Message-ID: <188@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 12:00:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: cunixc.188
Posted: Tue Oct 13 12:00:36 1987
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Reply-To: howie@cunixc.columbia.edu (Howie Kaye)
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In article <68@quincy.UUCP> lenny@quincy.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:

>  Several months ago, we got the "UNIX Magic" poster from Unitech, and
>we immediately tried to see how many little jokes it contained.  Some
>were incredibly obvious (like the cat), while others were a little more
>subtle, like the pipes overhead, or the initials on the banner on the
>UNIX wizard's hat.
>  But there are a few annoying things whose significance we can't figure out.
>  In particular:
>   - the jar labeled "oregano"

I was speaking to someone at unitech, and they said that they had a
second poster coming out soon.

I also asked them what the oregano stood for.  They said it referred
to an incident in which one of the original writers of BSD was
arrested for crossing the canadian border with a bag full of oregano.

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