Re: T-Shirts
From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...and then sunny Birmingham .. You must have been dreaming! Barbie, currently sitting in a high-rise office block in rainy Brum.
Re: T-Shirts
Barbie wrote: ...and then sunny Birmingham .. You must have been dreaming! I was stuck in the Chamberlain hotel on Broad Street. I wanted to go out for a walk and go to a bar and a restaurant (rather than being stuck in the hotel ones) but it was absolutley pissing it down with rain so I just stayed inside and sulked and ran up expenses. I actually meant to give you a bell and ask if you wanted to go for a swift pint but I was only told I was going on Monday night and I didn't have email access where I was on site (the glamourous Small Heath business park)
T-Shirts
I was just wondering, have the secret T-shirt designs been sent off to the printers yet ? The reason I ask is that I'd really like one of them to be Hitch-Hiker related; or maybe we could have a special run of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.PM shirts done. -- Robert
RE: T-Shirts
From: Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:23 PM I was just wondering, have the secret T-shirt designs been sent off to the printers yet ? The reason I ask is that I'd really like one of them to be Hitch-Hiker related; or maybe we could have a special run of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.PM shirts done. Wierdly enough, that has always been one of the designs on the list. Dave... [waiting for Simon to send his bank details so he can bankroll the deal] The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
Re: T-shirts for Monday
"David H. Adler" wrote: I'm guessing that those of us on this side of the atlantic are, therefore, out of luck at this point? Nope. Well, sort of. I saved 3 * XL for Merkins. I'm also thinking of printing some more.
Re: T-shirts for Monday
An entity claiming to be David H. Adler wrote: : : Good man. : : Now all I have to do is figure out how to get them... :-) : Well, if we can figure out how to, I'd like to snatch up one of them. Mark -- [] | "Girls in occupied countries always [] Mark Rogaski | get into trouble with soldiers," she [] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | said, when I asked her what the Virgin [] | birth was. -- Florence King, CoaFSL
Re: good job there weren't any base belongs to us t-shirts printed
* Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010304 17:45]: On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, James Powell wrote: Might have ended up like the last programme here (not for the easily offended) http://www.tvgohome.com/ cafepress have some aybabtu tees. There is a nice page of reworked cartoons and images with aybabtu worked in. Also totl.net has an aybabtu style whelk in its whelk page. It was all over when it made The Grauniad this morning. Well there's still another 4 months to go before it's passe in Australia so a T-shirt is still worthwhile if anyone's planning a trip over. I was puzzled seeing aybabtu on an album cover http://www.aquariusrecordssf.com/cat/newest.html (search TORTOISE) but it ain't there. http://www.cheap-cds.com/surf/disps/341824 Lucky I'm subscribed to a list that's near the memetic source (some Japlish speaking aliens). -- Brad Bowman
Re: T-shirts for Monday
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:14:14PM +, Neil Ford wrote: Are we going to try and get as many PIMB tshirts in the audiance for Monday? We could even get a photo with Damian? I'll bring the 8 or so I have left as well. Excellent. We should probably present one to Damian. I'm guessing that those of us on this side of the atlantic are, therefore, out of luck at this point? dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ perl is a language, and as such, is about as Y2K compliant as Serbo-Croat.- David Cantrell in comp.lang.perl.misc
Re: good job there weren't any base belongs to us t-shirts printed
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, James Powell wrote: Might have ended up like the last programme here (not for the easily offended) http://www.tvgohome.com/ cafepress have some aybabtu tees. There is a nice page of reworked cartoons and images with aybabtu worked in. Also totl.net has an aybabtu style whelk in its whelk page. It was all over when it made The Grauniad this morning. /J\ -- Jonathan Stowe | http://www.gellyfish.com | I'm with Grep on this one http://www.tackleway.co.uk |
good job there weren't any base belongs to us t-shirts printed
Might have ended up like the last programme here (not for the easily offended) http://www.tvgohome.com/
Re: good job there weren't any base belongs to us t-shirts printed
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, James Powell wrote: Might have ended up like the last programme here (not for the easily offended) http://www.tvgohome.com/ cafepress have some aybabtu tees. There is a nice page of reworked cartoons and images with aybabtu worked in. Also totl.net has an aybabtu style whelk in its whelk page. A. -- A HREF = "http://termisoc.org/~betty" Betty @ termisoc.org /A "As a youngster Fred fought sea battles on the village pond using a complex system of signals he devised that was later adopted by the Royal Navy. " (this email has nothing to do with any organisation except me)
Re: T-shirts for Monday
Neil Ford wrote: This isn't a question about any possible plans to produce a new tshirt design for Monday :-) but rather Place said they couldn't do it in time. That doesn't rule out Prontaprint though :) Oh well, some other time maybe (for YAPC::Europe?). Are we going to try and get as many PIMB tshirts in the audiance for Monday? We could even get a photo with Damian? I'll bring the 8 or so I have left as well. Excellent. We should probably present one to Damian. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Yet Another Computer Solutions Company [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: t-shirts
Perl t-shirt ideas
=pod
=head1 Bad Perl T-Shirt Ideas
Sorry.
=head2 perl related
* "My other t-shirt has a camel on it"
* "I know perl" "Show me"
* "If you programmed in perl you'd be home by now"
* "You don't have to be mad to program perl, but it helps"
* "95% of cats prefer programming perl over any other language"
* "Perl. There is no a."
* "mod_perl. It's not a quake add on. It's more fun than that"
=head2 lpm related
* "London.pm: we camels"
* "I want a PONY!", on the back (("PONY"x10)."\n")x40
=head2 joke within a joke (PIMB ref)
* "#! perl is my programming language of choice"
* "#! perl is my itch" (preferably in the same blue, same font)
* "Smack my perl up"
* "Muttley is a Arsehole" (let's see Randall complain about that)
* "I blame Wistow for *everything*"
=head2 random
* "XP programmers do it in pairs"
* "This is not a credit or debit card"
* "Just another local who happened to be in your holiday photo"
* "If you lived here you'd be like all the other voices"
* Front: "Why?" Back: "Why not?"
* On front and back "humorous slogan on other side"
* "This is a t-shirt. There are many like it. But this is mine"
* on the back "Stop following me"
=head2 and finally
#!/usr/bin/perl
$shop = undef;
{
local $shop = {}; $this = $shop;
local @people = residents; for (@people) {$this-{$_}=\$PreciousThings;}
}
print HERE $shop-{You};
$shop-{You}-touch if defined($shop-{You})
=cut
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm = 'Profero Ltd',Web = 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone = '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
Re: t-shirts
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, you wrote: Perl t-shirt ideas * "Muttley is a Arsehole" (let's see Randall complain about that) See Randal complain about that .. you'll see me complain about that. ... I mean .. people will laugh and mock us how could you .. it should be "Muttley is an Arsehole" .. I dunno, such poor grammar these days :)) -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Re: t-shirts
... I mean .. people will laugh and mock us how could you .. it
should be "Muttley is an Arsehole" .. I dunno, such poor grammar these
days :))
No, just poor typing I'm afraid.
This would only work however if Simon printed and distributed the
T-shirts ;-)
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm = 'Profero Ltd',Web = 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone = '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
Re: t-shirts
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:43:10AM +, Michael Stevens wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:53:24PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: Pony::Pony Only if it has the open sourced code of the module on the back :) I think Mr Clamp has been doing initial development on this, but has not yet released his code. Okay, it's pre pre alpha, it does nothing, and it's not even an very good way of doing the nothing it does. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Pony; print "Wanna = ", Pony::-new-wanna(), "\n"; Pony.pm
Re: t-shirts
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:24:46PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: I think Mr Clamp has been doing initial development on this, but has not yet released his code. Okay, it's pre pre alpha, it does nothing, and it's not even an very good way of doing the nothing it does. Perhaps a sourceforge project to allow open collaboration? :) Michael
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:27:07PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:24:46PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: Okay, it's pre pre alpha, it does nothing, and it's not even an very good way of doing the nothing it does. I haven't even recieved this mail yet - hmmm. Perhaps a sourceforge project to allow open collaboration? :) Or the london.pm server, on which we could do straight cvs, or even install the lumbering beast that is sourceforge. I nominate dadadodo as the pumpking for this. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:29:45PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: Or the london.pm server, on which we could do straight cvs, or even install the lumbering beast that is sourceforge. I nominate dadadodo as the pumpking for this. I think he should collaborate with dipsy. Michael
t-shirts
We've been talking about t-shirts on irc, and I think we should try to get some ideas together[1]. Some thoughts to start you off: Hash Bang Perl Pony::Pony PIMB (we've done this one) ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US Michael [1] disclaimer in advance: unofficial ideas, not a project of the london perl mongers group, not endorsed by anyone ever. I promise not to be organised in any way, and make no commitment whatsoever.
Re: t-shirts
On 21/02/2001 at 12:26 +, Michael Stevens wrote: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US Yeah, this would have been OK if you'd printed them on Friday morning, and they were disposable. This sort of meme just does the rounds too rapidly. I mean, how much would you laugh at someone wearing a 'I am Mahir, Kiss Me Now' or whatever it was tshirt now? (For the uninitiated, AYBABTU: http://linux.nextdimensioninc.com/AYB2.swf http://www.toaplan.com/zerowing/ http://www.classicgaming.com/vault/roms/arcaderoms.ZeroWing34735.shtml http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~diehlr/base.jpg http://members.nbci.com/finagler/base/ ) -- :: paul :: join us in creating excellence
Re: t-shirts
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: We've been talking about t-shirts on irc, and I think we should try to get some ideas together[1]. Some thoughts to start you off: Hash Bang Perl Pony::Pony PIMB (we've done this one) ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US I saw a t-shirt the other week that just had "-w" on it thought it was quite cool. Not sure if it was a perl t-shirt though! Andy
Re: t-shirts
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:43:34PM +, Paul Mison wrote: On 21/02/2001 at 12:26 +, Michael Stevens wrote: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US and they were disposable. This sort of meme just does the rounds too rapidly. I mean, how much would you laugh at someone wearing a 'I am Mahir, Kiss Me Now' or whatever it was tshirt now? You've got it! We need dissolving t-shirts! Michael
Re: t-shirts
Andy Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I saw a t-shirt the other week that just had "-w" on it thought it was quite cool. Not sure if it was a perl t-shirt though! #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict ; use World::Domination ; my $thing = new World::Domination-order() ; Or something. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
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* at 21/02 12:49 + Michael Stevens said: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:43:34PM +, Paul Mison wrote: On 21/02/2001 at 12:26 +, Michael Stevens wrote: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US and they were disposable. This sort of meme just does the rounds too rapidly. I mean, how much would you laugh at someone wearing a 'I am Mahir, Kiss Me Now' or whatever it was tshirt now? You've got it! We need dissolving t-shirts! surely just t-shirts with editable text? struan
Re: t-shirts
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:53:55PM +, Struan Donald wrote: surely just t-shirts with editable text? T-shirts with a velcro strip and a bad of letters that stick. Available now at GAP dave, no I haven't been in there -- dave thorn | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: t-shirts
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:57:00PM +, Dave Thorn wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:53:55PM +, Struan Donald wrote: surely just t-shirts with editable text? T-shirts with a velcro strip and a bad of letters that stick. Available now at GAP dave, no I haven't been in there Now if someone would just invent print-on lcd panels... Michael
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:04:34PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: Now if someone would just invent print-on lcd panels... http://www.visson.net/ Paul
RE: t-shirts
We've been talking about t-shirts on irc, and I think we should try to get some ideas together[1]. How about one with perlperlperlperlperl printed around the neck area in a circle? You see where I'm going on this one? -- matt jones
Re: t-shirts
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Michael Stevens wrote: We've been talking about t-shirts on irc, and I think we should try to get some ideas together[1]. Some thoughts to start you off: Hash Bang Perl Pony::Pony PIMB (we've done this one) $foo = my $controversial_noun; /J\ -- Jonathan Stowe | http://www.gellyfish.com | I'm with Grep on this one http://www.tackleway.co.uk |
Free T-Shirts
It seems that Foyles on Tottenham Crt Rd are giving away free orielly shirts. I got a Perl and a Linux one just by asking ( there are loads on some orielly display in there ) and not even purchasing anything. mallum http://10.am/Development/Perl
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hurrah for the mayhem of foyles! * mallum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It seems that Foyles on Tottenham Crt Rd are giving away free orielly shirts. I got a Perl and a Linux one just by asking ( there are loads on some orielly display in there ) and not even purchasing anything. mallum http://10.am/Development/Perl -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Free T-Shirts
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:44:54PM -0500, mallum wrote: It seems that Foyles on Tottenham Crt Rd are giving away free orielly shirts. I got a Perl and a Linux one just by asking ( there are loads on some orielly display in there ) and not even purchasing anything. When I got there they said I had to buy 3 O'Reilly books. So I bought three pocket references: mod_perl, Emacs and CVS. -- Niklas Nordebo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Per Section 301, Paragraph (a)(2)(C) of S. 618, further transmissions to you by the sender may be stopped at NO COST to you by forwarding this e-mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=remove
Re: Free T-Shirts
on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:48:14PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: hurrah for the mayhem of foyles! Its always fun when you get served by the crazy russian girl in there who always will ask you some bizzare visual studio question, when you inform her you use Linux and not Windows she then tells you Linux is no good because it dosn't support DCOM. hm mallum
Re: PIMB T-shirts
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: snip discussion about legal aspects re using a camel smoking a joint on a t-shirt. If these are private individuals selling t-shirts, may I suggest just omitting the word 'perl' from anywhere on the t-shirt. Then O'Reilly's trademark issues don't even come into effect (See page 'iv' of Programming Perl for trademark discussion) and it's really, really got nothing to do with them. besides, ``Icon'' smoking joint has been done to death, hash bang perl is original -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: PIMB T-shirts
At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:17:29 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite frankly I'd rather not piss of O'Reilly. IMHO they're a nice company that do nice things and the legality of the issue really has nothing to do with it. I think this is a _very_ good point. On a tangentially related point - I've just overheard someone in the office mention the rumour that "Puff, the magic dragon" was "written by someone who was smoking a joint". I guess I'm just surprised that there are people to whom this fact isn't obvious. Dave... [who was obviously corrupted by his primary school teachers who forced him to sing that song over 30 years ago]
RE: PIMB T-shirts
On a tangentially related point - I've just overheard someone in the office mention the rumour that "Puff, the magic dragon" was "written by someone who was smoking a joint". I guess I'm just surprised that there are people to whom this fact isn't obvious. It's not obvious! I listened to this song over and over again when I was young and at no point did it seem at all drug induced. It's perfectly good childrens song. Down with the conspiracy theories! And another thing: http://www.brunching.com/toys/drugslanger.html
Re: PIMB T-shirts
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On a tangentially related point - I've just overheard someone in the office mention the rumour that "Puff, the magic dragon" was "written by someone who was smoking a joint". I guess I'm just surprised that there are people to whom this fact isn't obvious. It's not obvious! I listened to this song over and over again when I was young and at no point did it seem at all drug induced. It's perfectly good childrens song. Down with the conspiracy theories! damn, this fact is in some comedy film --- ah thats right its meet the parents, with Robert De Niro as an ex-CIA guy who is equally surprised at PtMD being about this. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: PIMB T-shirts
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:17:29 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite frankly I'd rather not piss of O'Reilly. IMHO they're a nice company that do nice things and the legality of the issue really has nothing to do with it. I think this is a _very_ good point. On a tangentially related point - I've just overheard someone in the office mention the rumour that "Puff, the magic dragon" was "written by someone who was smoking a joint". I guess I'm just surprised that there are people to whom this fact isn't obvious. Dave... [who was obviously corrupted by his primary school teachers who forced him to sing that song over 30 years ago] Snopes has this to say: http://www.snopes2.com/music/songs/puff.htm -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
Re: PIMB T-shirts
At 17 Jan 2001 10:09:29 +, Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Puff the Magic Dragon] Snopes has this to say: http://www.snopes2.com/music/songs/puff.htm Which I'd be happy to read in detail if it wasn't for the fscking midi of the tune blasting out and letting everyone in the office know exactly what I'm doing. Dave... [who wishes that Netscape had a "no multimedia at all. under any circumstances!" option instead of just "no graphics".
Re: PIMB T-shirts
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:14:27AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Which I'd be happy to read in detail if it wasn't for the fscking midi of the tune blasting out and letting everyone in the office know exactly what I'm doing. Dave... [who wishes that Netscape had a "no multimedia at all. under any circumstances!" option instead of just "no graphics". junkbuster is your friend. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
Re: PIMB T-shirts
On a tangentially related point - I've just overheard someone in the office mention the rumour that "Puff, the magic dragon" was "written by someone who was smoking a joint". I guess I'm just surprised that there are people to whom this fact isn't obvious. I thought it was about 'chasing the dragon' - ie heating a resinous substance on tinfoil with a lighter and inhaling the fumes, this is probably less bad for you than smoking stuff in a cigarette form. Although hookah pipes with resin are probably healthier still. A. -- A HREF = "http://termisoc.org/~betty" Betty @ termisoc.org /A "As a youngster Fred fought sea battles on the village pond using a complex system of signals he devised that was later adopted by the Royal Navy. " (this email has nothing to do with any organisation except me)
Re: PIMB T-shirts
I thought it was about 'chasing the dragon' - ie heating a resinous substance on tinfoil with a lighter and inhaling the fumes, this is probably less bad for you than smoking stuff in a cigarette form. Although hookah pipes with resin are probably healthier still. Myself and a couple of friends of mine were talking about this before and someone suggested that ingestion in cakes was healthier still and more "effective". I don't know if this is the case but i'm nosy so if anyone knows the answer please let us (or me privatly) know.
Re: PIMB T-shirts
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Robin Houston wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:25:26PM +, Aaron Trevena wrote: ingestion has several downsides - lack of control of dosage (assuming you eat it at a significant lump at a time), longer effects, stronger effects (making it hard to get dosage right) and also slow absorbtion. Though all of those could be advantages too :-) yes - perfect for that ozrics or hawkwind gig. A. -- A HREF = "http://termisoc.org/~betty" Betty @ termisoc.org /A "As a youngster Fred fought sea battles on the village pond using a complex system of signals he devised that was later adopted by the Royal Navy. " (this email has nothing to do with any organisation except me)
Re: PIMB T-shirts
[snip lengthy Puff tMD discussion] Well, for what it's worth, I just called a friend of mine who knew Peter Yarrow while growing up, and although she has never asked him, I have requested that she do so if she speaks to him. dave, getting this settled. -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Perl can certainly be used as a first computer language, but it was really designed to be a *last* computer language. - Larry Wall
Re: PIMB T-shirts
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip lengthy Puff tMD discussion] Well, for what it's worth, I just called a friend of mine who knew Peter Yarrow while growing up, and although she has never asked him, I have requested that she do so if she speaks to him. dave, getting this settled. ah the joy of 7 degrees of seperation -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: PIMB T-shirts
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:32:47PM +, Marcel Grunauer wrote: How about "Smoking Perl" for Amsterdam? "YAPC::Europe::Amsterdam - A Week-Long Hashref" Alex
Re: PIMB T-shirts
"David H. Adler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:37:57AM +, Simon Wistow wrote: David Hodgkinson wrote: Can I reserve 2 to go to the States? I guess I should enquire about sizes... Sure, no problem. Shall I enquire at NY.pm tomorrow about demand? Forget mine. They guy cried off when he found out they were for real. Pussy. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
Re: PIMB T-shirts
* Marcel Grunauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll writes: Apparently Amsterdam.pm are looking for a design for YAPC::Europe 2001 ;-) however, having said that, still like the # , ! , perl one ;-) that ought to be |\/| | \__/ | |______| \ / | | | | | hash bang perl | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |/\| i know, i was protecting simon's trademarks, besides this is just the sort of thing that gives perl a bad name (i'll have an XXL simon) I'd like to set up a standing order for 2 of the largest size you can do of each new design as they are produced. In actual fact thinking about it, best make that 4 of. Cheques at monthly intervals okay? Neil. -- Neil C. Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.binky.ourshack.org
Re: PIMB T-shirts
It's been done. But go for it.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/adclass/camel/images/motorcycle.jpg
(http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/adclass/camel/JoeCool.html)
S.
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Alex Page wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:59:44PM +, Redvers Davies wrote:
There is a temptation to insert a joint into the mouth of the "Republic of
Perl" camel. Of course this would never happen[1].
[1] Something tells me that would have to be a trademark thing that O'Reilly
would protect.
IANAL, but AFAIK parody is protected under trademark law, as long as you're not
making profit (I presume beer money for the hassle of T-shirt making is excusable).
Alex
--
Shevek
I am the Borg.
sub AUTOLOAD { ($s=$AUTOLOAD)=~s/.*:://; eval qq{ *$AUTOLOAD=$s
?sub {$s*{$s-1}} :sub {1}; }; goto $AUTOLOAD; } print {'4'};
trade mark parody (Re: PIMB T-shirts)
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:09:55AM -0500, Alex Page wrote: IANAL, but AFAIK parody is protected under trademark law, as long as you're not making profit (I presume beer money for the hassle of T-shirt making is excusable). IANAL either, but I think it's quite complicated. "More interestingly the Court held that in trade mark law, there is no "parody" defence to an infringement action." (from http://www.bristows.com/news/news_items/elvis.html) Other cases seem to contradict that view though. Also relevant is http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v5n1/blake51.html#infringet paragraph 48: "derogotary use", involving the "suggestion of an unwholesome, or unsavoury association" seems to qualify as infringement in the US. Don't we have someone here who *is* a lawyer? :-) .robin.
Re: PIMB T-shirts
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, you wrote: however, having said that, still like the # , ! , perl one ;-) that ought to be |\/| | \__/ | |______| \ / | | | | | hash bang perl | | | careful now fellas .. that is a bit risque' .. cant you stick with something less contraversial .. like semi naked hooters girls or summink?? :)) wouldn't want to upset our corporate overlords now would we ... (err thats a joke by the way before anybody says anything ..) -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Re: PIMB T-shirts
Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Hodgkinson wrote: Are there any of these left? Yeah, I've got about 10 or so left I think. Can I reserve 2 to go to the States? I guess I should enquire about sizes... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:37:57AM +, Simon Wistow wrote: David Hodgkinson wrote: Can I reserve 2 to go to the States? I guess I should enquire about sizes... Sure, no problem. Shall I enquire at NY.pm tomorrow about demand? -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "I... would... like... the... Screamin'... Jay... Hawkins... box set... and DVD... please" - #9 Sign Someone Has Cast a Spell On You
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"David H. Adler" wrote: Shall I enquire at NY.pm tomorrow about demand? Yup. Might eb up for doing anohter run if necessary. Plus I have some other ideas.
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* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: "David H. Adler" wrote: Shall I enquire at NY.pm tomorrow about demand? Yup. Might eb up for doing anohter run if necessary. Plus I have some other ideas. Apparently Amsterdam.pm are looking for a design for YAPC::Europe 2001 ;-) however, having said that, still like the # , ! , perl one ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:04:42PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: "David H. Adler" wrote: Shall I enquire at NY.pm tomorrow about demand? Yup. Might eb up for doing anohter run if necessary. Plus I have some other ideas. Doctor incarnation=secondI think this is one of those instances were discretion is the better part of valour. Simon has an idea./Doctor dha :-) -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "Life is so hard, you know that sometimes it seems the good guys only win, when the bad guys leave." - The Jim Basnight Thing
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:39:07AM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: Are there any of these left? And how can we get them to the states? Now that I think of it, do the vienna/belfast contingents still have the ones that didn't make it here last month? I know at least a couple of ny.pm people want them... dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ It's amazing what giant mutant ants that are the result of Man's dabbling with the power of atomic energy can accomplish when they set themselves to the task.- Mark Rogaski
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"David H. Adler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:39:07AM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: Are there any of these left? And how can we get them to the states? Now that I think of it, do the vienna/belfast contingents still have the ones that didn't make it here last month? I know at least a couple of ny.pm people want them... This is where my two are going. I'm going to the states "soon" but there's nothing certain. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:29:31PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote: I'm going to the states "soon" but there's nothing certain. Keep me informed. I'll call a meeting. dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "Well, sure, being a ruthless godless dictator is fun, but it's all about the fans!" - Public Broadcast of His Imperial Majesty, Dimension 431-q-fhd
