I take that as a reference to an ad

I have no dupes. I always gave them away when
I got them. The last system was bought about
3 years ago, so all the shirts are well worn.

I'd say almost EVERY T-Shirt I wear is a Linux,
Unix, or hardware product. Years of going to
PC-Expo, Unix Expo, etc.

My favorites were the Digital Alpha Cheetah shirts
and the Veritas shirt:

"The Server is down and the boss wants to see you"
{{ Picture of Jason hockey mask }}
"Be afraid. Be very afraid."

That shirt saved my job.
Really.

I was at a company picnic. Had been an employee
about 1.5 years. I was at the snack table, standing
next to an owner who I had never met, but I knew
by reputation. Major hard-ass, fire people in a blink.

He was the #2 owner, and in charge of mainframe
technology, which means my very existance annoyed him
since he considered anything I bought a duplicate of
something he already spent money on.

Me (to the food person): Ooooh oooooh. Cotton Candy!
I love cotton candy, Gimme some!!

Him: What have so done do DESERVE cotton candy?!

Me (note, obviously my anticipated sugar rush destroyed
my ability to think) : Put up with your company!

I had just wandered into the "you are about to get your
ass fired zone".

He did a doubletake. NOBODY speaks to him like that.
Especially not some expensive yet low end geek. He stared
at me and noticed my T-shirt, and read it out loud.

"The Server is down and the boss wants to see you"
{{ Picture of Jason hockey mask }}
"Be afraid. Be very afraid."

And then looked back at my face. I said something along
the lines that the systems were not ALLOWED to go down
and I lived by the T-shirts philosophy.

He smiled (a strange and dangerous smile) and let me
have my cotton candy.

donkeys fornicating with elephants both wearing US flags, every other panel had the donkey on top interchanged with the elephant. The Governor employed 2 true blue dems all the rest were hard core repo's as himself. Showed the T-shirt to the Dem VP.
He goes lets show bob
Bob is the head of a Major Bank among other things and a true pirate as well as a son of the governor. He laughs like hell and sez "The Old Man ought to see this" they look at each other a little afeered because the gov was an old school gent. didnt like profanity etc. I walked it into his office and displayed it. He laughs gently and said that was really funny while the other 2 wait with bated breathe,
I walked out and they resumed breathing. Of course if his wife had been in the room and I had dared display it I prolly would have been horsewhipped out of the building. Good man the Gov.
thanx,
bill

Post #141,934 by ben_tilly 2/16/04 12:01:19 PM Reply	I take that as a reference to an ad Remember the penguin saying, "I will be your server tonight, Mr. Gates."? Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #141,936 by rickw 2/16/04 12:18:48 PM Reply	Re: I take that as a reference to an ad Sure do. When my wife got assimilated (any port etc) and I was looking for houses in/around Redmond, I saw 4 of these in the 80 or so houses we looked at. Guess it resonates in this town. FAQ! We're scrod!
Post #141,939 by inthane-chan 2/16/04 12:31:54 PM Reply	"This town"? You up here still? "I'll stop calling this crew 'Orwellian' when they stop using 1984 as an operations manual." - J. Bradford DeLong
Post #141,943 by rickw 2/16/04 12:56:57 PM Reply	Re: "This town"? Here now/still. Bit north of Redmond Town Center. Hope to be here for a bit, this is my 2nd relo and I don't enjoy the process. Especially with a kid. I haven't been here as long as you...so I could ask, "You still here?" FAQ! We're scrod!
Post #141,946 by inthane-chan 2/16/04 1:01:27 PM Reply	A-yup. Working in downtown Seattle, living SE of Renton. We should meet up sometime. "I'll stop calling this crew 'Orwellian' when they stop using 1984 as an operations manual." - J. Bradford DeLong
Post #141,950 by rickw 2/16/04 1:13:27 PM Reply	Re: A-yup. Was thinking same. My ORGanization is m-e-a-r-t-h without the punctuation. My name is rick. (hah, regexp THAT harvesters!) FAQ! We're scrod!
Post #141,938 by broomberg 2/16/04 12:31:27 PM Reply	I have that T-Shirt It has a monster Tux, holding a platter, stomping on the Redmond campus. I have about 10 variations of those ads since I bought about 15 Penguin Computing servers, and everyone came with a T-shirt.
Post #141,996 by Ashton 2/16/04 5:23:25 PM Reply	Miser. I wear an L.
Post #142,004 by broomberg 2/16/04 7:56:35 PM 2/16/04 8:05:48 PM Reply	Not happening I have no dupes. I always gave them away when I got them. The last system was bought about 3 years ago, so all the shirts are well worn. I'd say almost EVERY T-Shirt I wear is a Linux, Unix, or hardware product. Years of going to PC-Expo, Unix Expo, etc. My favorites were the Digital Alpha Cheetah shirts and the Veritas shirt: "The Server is down and the boss wants to see you" {{ Picture of Jason hockey mask }} "Be afraid. Be very afraid." That shirt saved my job. Really. I was at a company picnic. Had been an employee about 1.5 years. I was at the snack table, standing next to an owner who I had never met, but I knew by reputation. Major hard-ass, fire people in a blink. He was the #2 owner, and in charge of mainframe technology, which means my very existance annoyed him since he considered anything I bought a duplicate of something he already spent money on. Me (to the food person): Ooooh oooooh. Cotton Candy! I love cotton candy, Gimme some!! Him: What have so done do DESERVE cotton candy?! Me (note, obviously my anticipated sugar rush destroyed my ability to think) : Put up with your company! I had just wandered into the "you are about to get your ass fired zone". He did a doubletake. NOBODY speaks to him like that. Especially not some expensive yet low end geek. He stared at me and noticed my T-shirt, and read it out loud. "The Server is down and the boss wants to see you" {{ Picture of Jason hockey mask }} "Be afraid. Be very afraid." And then looked back at my face. I said something along the lines that the systems were not ALLOWED to go down and I lived by the T-shirts philosophy. He smiled (a strange and dangerous smile) and let me have my cotton candy. Edited by broomberg Feb. 16, 2004, 08:05:48 PM EST Expand All History
Post #142,005 by Ashton 2/16/04 9:06:20 PM Reply	Ah the sublime joy of escaping after Twisting the Dragon's Tail * this of course leads to - Know what that refers to? ..and name of the person who {unlike your unworthy Self} didn't get away with it? OK, it's before your time but, we are still living with the results. And jargon. Like puzzles, right?
Post #142,026 by broomberg 2/16/04 11:18:05 PM Reply	Clueless. Sorry.
Post #142,135 by Ashton 2/18/04 4:11:28 AM Reply	Manhattan Project: small blocks of enriched U gently prodded about with screwdrivers, to measure neutron cross-sections; "twisting the Dragon's tail". (One Louis Slotin slipped; before dying, calculated the likely dose given those around the 'assembly'. He knew his was fatal; air turned blue from ionization.) Oh well.
Post #142,018 by boxley 2/16/04 10:21:10 PM Reply	reminds me of a t-shirt a friend gave me once donkeys fornicating with elephants both wearing US flags, every other panel had the donkey on top interchanged with the elephant. The Governor employed 2 true blue dems all the rest were hard core repo's as himself. Showed the T-shirt to the Dem VP. He goes lets show bob Bob is the head of a Major Bank among other things and a true pirate as well as a son of the governor. He laughs like hell and sez "The Old Man ought to see this" they look at each other a little afeered because the gov was an old school gent. didnt like profanity etc. I walked it into his office and displayed it. He laughs gently and said that was really funny while the other 2 wait with bated breathe, I walked out and they resumed breathing. Of course if his wife had been in the room and I had dared display it I prolly would have been horsewhipped out of the building. Good man the Gov. thanx, bill The only thing worse than watching granny porn is starring in granny porn questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #141,940 by admin 2/16/04 12:35:10 PM Reply	Nope. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #141,945 by rickw 2/16/04 12:58:33 PM Reply	20 questions perhaps? Is it a movie reference? FAQ! We're scrod!
Post #141,956 by folkert 2/16/04 1:25:57 PM Reply	Nope! -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* "Lately, The only thing keeping me from being a Serial Killer is my distaste for manual labor." -- Dilbert Calendar, January 4, 2004
Post #141,957 by Another Scott 2/16/04 1:33:53 PM Reply	19 questions? Sounds like a ST reference...
Post #141,962 by rickw 2/16/04 1:46:14 PM Reply	Re: 19 questions? Sounds like a ST reference... Yeah, I thought about that too. Shatner should have retired into complete media invisibility, except for when he appeared on SNL. Those priceline commercials slightly frighten me. FAQ! We're scrod!
Post #141,966 by Another Scott 2/16/04 1:52:06 PM Reply	Slightly!?!?!
Post #141,973 by folkert 2/16/04 2:13:46 PM Reply	Nope! One HInt. I was involved. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* "Lately, The only thing keeping me from being a Serial Killer is my distaste for manual labor." -- Dilbert Calendar, January 4, 2004
Post #141,975 by ben_tilly 2/16/04 2:19:55 PM 2/16/04 2:33:36 PM Reply	Incident at a Beep party? Where [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/user?userid=21\|Jim] was making a show of fetching something (beer IIRC)? Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi] Edited by ben_tilly Feb. 16, 2004, 02:33:36 PM EST Expand All History
Post #141,979 by folkert 2/16/04 2:27:13 PM Reply	Nope. It also involved admin. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* "Lately, The only thing keeping me from being a Serial Killer is my distaste for manual labor." -- Dilbert Calendar, January 4, 2004
Post #142,163 by drewk 2/18/04 11:10:15 AM Reply	Well, since nobody's getting it ... Walk into a restaurant. See the hottie leading you to your tabale. See the hottie waiting on the next table. See the hottie carrying a tray to the table across the room. See the guy walk up to your table and say ... === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #142,164 by boxley 2/18/04 11:14:17 AM Reply	huh, I thought it was a shatner ref of some kind. The only thing worse than watching granny porn is starring in granny porn questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #141,982 by rickw 2/16/04 2:34:42 PM Reply	Ah...Bowing out now. WWJD? JWRTFM.
Post #141,963 by rickw 2/16/04 1:46:57 PM Reply	TV ref? FAQ! We're scrod!
Post #141,974 by folkert 2/16/04 2:14:03 PM Reply	Nosir. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* "Lately, The only thing keeping me from being a Serial Killer is my distaste for manual labor." -- Dilbert Calendar, January 4, 2004
Post #141,986 by drewk 2/16/04 3:03:56 PM Reply	But it involved me Okay, last of that particular hint. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #141,989 by folkert 2/16/04 4:20:58 PM 2/16/04 4:21:29 PM Reply	Yes, I was gonna add you too... Frowny boy... DAMMINT! -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* "Lately, The only thing keeping me from being a Serial Killer is my distaste for manual labor." -- Dilbert Calendar, January 4, 2004 Edited by folkert Feb. 16, 2004, 04:21:29 PM EST Expand All History

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