From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-11-13T03:49:35+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: EuRuKo: European Ruby conference

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:46:50PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Massimiliano Mirra" <list@NOSPAMchromatic-harp.com.web-hosting.com>
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: EuRuKo: European Ruby conference
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:28:58AM +0900, Armin Roehrl wrote:
> > >  Does "EuRuKo" sounds Japanese?
> > 
> > Dunno, but that's just half a sound away from the Italian for (ouch)
> > ``eunuch''.  So if you want folks from Italy... think again. ;-)
> 
> That's OK... "UNIX" sounds similar to "eunuchs" 
> in English, and it has never stopped us... :)

In fact AFAIK it was a pun on "MULTIX" and "EUNUCHS" (UNIX being a
castrated version of MULTIX).

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