Maybe it's a visual representation of "Paddle your own Canoe", or "Up a
Creek without a Paddle", or maybe the third nerd is hosing himself at
the antics of the UNIX nerds?

Neil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael L Gueterman [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Subject:      Re: Off-topic: explanation, please?
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>   I don't know, whatever floats your boat! <grin>
> (I have no idea where I picked that phrase up, but I've
> used it for as far back as I can remember to mean
> "sounds strange to me, but if it works for you then fine").
>
> Regards,
> Michael L Gueterman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:   toback2 [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:   Thursday, May 28, 1998 8:03 AM
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> Subject:        [HP3000-L] Off-topic: explanation, please?
>
> Hi all,
>
> There's an ad on pp. 58-59 of the current issue of Information Week
> (May
> 25, 1998) that I'm completely at a loss to understand. It's a joint
> Microsoft/HP ad featuring two nerds (male, black suits, ties,
> horn-rims)
> standing in a rowboat facing a third nerd outside the rowboat with his
> hand on a hose bibb that's not connected to anything. All this against
> a
> plain white background. The caption reads "Any friend of UNIX is a
> friend
> of ours."
>
> Too Zen for me. Can anyone explain the significance of this?
>
> -- Bruce
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