Thursday, 28 Sep 2006

SLUG stories

One day I joined the channel for the Sydney Linux Users Group and saw:

The topic for #slug is: ... | NO PLAID! PLAID WEARERS, GET OUT! | ...

After having tried to figure it out for a while, I finally gave in and asked. The conversation went like this:

AfC: So I don’t pretend to be up on every single pop culture reference in my latest-country-of-refuge; can someone explain what the plaid thing in the topic is? It’s endured up there surprisingly long.

purserj: It’s a kfish thing. Apparantly he was abused by a plaid wearing scotsman as a child

AfC: purserj: so you’re saying we should all wear plaid to community events so we can contribute to further reinforcing the damage?

***purserj imagines a room full of plaid wearing geeks. I suppose it could be worse

AfC: Not one of them would be colour co-ordinated, but the group as a whole would be a mighty gestalt of blazing fashion harmony.

purserj: They might achieve critical mass though

yama: a room full of mostly overweight geeks is critical mass without the fancy attire!

In honor of Conrad Parker‘s last day in Sydney before he heads off to do his doctorate in Kyoto, I hope there will be a big turnout at SLUG’s monthly meeting Friday night to wish kfish well (and, more to the point, to drink him under the table).

Make sure you wear plaid.

AfC

slug-plaid-for-kfish, posted by Andrew Cowie in mlp at 2006-09-28T00:42:05Z

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