From: Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM <schneik@...>
Date: 2000-11-03T07:03:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6020] Re: Ruby T-shirt

Hal Fulton writes:

# I keep trying to think of some kind of pun
<...>
# Maybe we could
# just use the slogan, "Ruby is the jewel in the lotus." Then if we could
# get the company Lotus to sponsor Ruby development... ;)

Here is some other potential raw material to work with: didn't fine 
mechanical wrist watches of the mid-20th century use tiny machined rubies 
as precision bearings to help increase their accuracy, durability, and 
reliability? 

Conrad Schneiker
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