Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Hartnoll
(apologies if this is a duplicate - I think my last post has gotten lost). The RFC pleads for a community spirit from ORA. Barring that, it seeks a new symbol for the community entirely I'd suggest a mongoose - eats poisonous snakes for breakfast. There's a sort of tie-in with Perl Mongers

RE: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-10 Thread David Grove
/me likes. /me likes a lot. David T. Grove Blue Square Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dave Hartnoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns : new mascot

Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Hartnoll
The RFC pleads for a community spirit from ORA. Barring that, it seeks a new symbol for the community entirely I'd suggest a mongoose - eats poisonous snakes for breakfast. There's a sort of tie-in with Perl Mongers == Perl Mongoose as well :-) Dave.

RE: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-09 Thread David Grove
Message- From: RFC850 host name inserted by qmail-smtpd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David L. Nicol Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 5:12 PM To: Larry Wall; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns : new mascot? Larry Wall wrote: there seems to be a shortage of three

Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-09 Thread Bart Lateur
On Wed, 9 May 2001 10:24:26 -0400, David Grove wrote: I remember someone (whether at O'Reilly or not I don't remember) saying that, even if it looks like a horse but has a hump, it's not allowed. Or was that an alpaca with a llama... The RFC pleads for a community spirit from ORA. Barring that,

Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-09 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:50:51PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: Several perl ports, and at least one book, use a shiny ball as a symbol. It took me a bit of thinking before I realized what this shiny ball represents. Odd. Beginning Perl was going to use a blown-up microscope slide of a grain of

RE: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-09 Thread David Grove
didn't do it because it would have taken $600 to prove a point. David T. Grove Blue Square Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bart Lateur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apoc2 - STDIN

RE: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-09 Thread David Grove
/me ponders the use of a cat in that context... Furball? David T. Grove Blue Square Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Simon Cozens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apoc2 - STDIN

Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-09 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:02:52AM -0400, David Grove wrote: oyster/clam/mussel shell with association to the Perl language. The first thought is to give a demonstration on how rude holding this type of symbol is. I think all it would demonstrate is how flawed the copyright system is. But

Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Mitchell
And there was me thinking the shiny ball must be a camel dropping

Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:06 PM 5/9/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:02:52AM -0400, David Grove wrote: oyster/clam/mussel shell with association to the Perl language. The first thought is to give a demonstration on how rude holding this type of symbol is. I think all it would

RE: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-09 Thread David Grove
- STDIN concerns : new mascot? On Wed, 9 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: Beginning Perl was going to use a blown-up microscope slide of a grain of sand - the beginnings of a pearl. Of course, nobody would have got it, so we went with a cat instead, which is even more oblique. Hmmm, I

Re: Apoc2 - STDIN concerns ::::: new mascot?

2001-05-08 Thread David L. Nicol
Larry Wall wrote: there seems to be a shortage of three-humped camels. At last! the unencumbered image for the mascot! Could O'Reilly really claim a three-humped camel was an image of a camel, with a straight face?