[wplug] New WPLUG member

William Powell billpwl1 at home.com
Tue Nov 20 16:16:42 EST 2001


Greetings,

I recommend that we adopt a fish of the variety likeable by our new
rockhopper mascot.  I further propose that we name the fish 'Bill
Gates'.  We can then feed Bill Gates ceremoniously to the our new mascot.

regards;
Bill

Beth Lynn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please consider looking at some typical rockhoppers
> before you vote.
> http://users.capu.net/~kwelch/pp/species/rockhopper.html
>
> If there's interest, we could see about getting a
> group rate to go see the rockhoppers at the zoo
> so that we can offically or unoffically name the
> penguin.
>
> Thanks,
> Beth Lynn
>
> --- Evan DiBiase <edibiase at mac.com> wrote:
> > Before we hold a vote: do we know for sure that we
> > have the ability to
> > officially name a penguin at the Zoo, or is this to
> > be an unofficial
> > sort of thing?
> >
> > -Evan
> >
> > On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 01:47 AM, David
> > Ostroske wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds like we should vote on this. Sort of like
> > how
> > > we voted on the logo.
> > >
> > > Mark, can you fashion a "Name the Penguin"
> > election
> > > like this?
> > >
> > > (Call me radical, but I'd also love to use a
> > ranked
> > > ballot for this one, since it's bound to be
> > > contentious:
> > > http://www.fairvote.org/irv/index.html
> > > Email me if anyone's at all interested.)
> > >
> > > --- Dave O
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: "David Gerard Matthews Jr." <dgm4+ at pitt.edu>
> > > Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:16:46 -0500
> > > To: wplug at wplug.org
> > > Subject: Re: [wplug] New WPLUG member
> > >
> > >
> > >> At risk of sounding too conventional, what's
> > wrong
> > > with Linus?  Or
> > >> Torvalds?  (Yes, there are probably penguins
> > > adopted by LUGs with names
> > >> like that all over the world, I know...)
> > >>  -dgm
> > >>
> > >> Mark Dalrymple wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> How about naming it Monkeybot? If anyone says
> > > it
> > >>>> can't be a monkey bot, we'll say, "But it is.
> > > It's
> > >>>> just incognito!"
> > >>>
> > >>> I like Monkeybot too.  It's uniquely wplug, and
> > > it's weird enough to
> > >>> reflect the off-kilter sense of humor of many of
> > > the wpluggers I know.
> > >>>
> > >>> ++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com.
> > > http://badgertronics.com
> > >>>   "Anywho, wplug is really a monarchy anyways,
> > > with monkeybot
> > >>>    on the throne."
> > >>>     -- zman
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