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Date:      Sun, 12 May 1996 09:29:41 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        jkh@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers), velte@allegro.lemis.de (Jack Velte)
Subject:   Re: A stuffed Daemon plushie (Chuck), anyone?
Message-ID:  <199605120729.JAA29185@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <4372.831644970@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 9, 96 05:29:30 am

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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>
> There is, of course, a downside to having the daemon made by the same
> German craftsmen who brought you the Porche and the BMW, and that's
> that they want a fair bit of money for it!  $60, to be exact, which is
> indeed pretty high but I suppose that if you really want a stuffed
> daemon which will last more than 10 minutes in the hands of a 6 year
> old, you gotta pay the price.

Pity.  I think that's rather more than I'm prepared to pay.

> And so, here's the deal.  If there are enough of you out there
> craz^H^H^H^Hinterested enough in owning a stuffed Chuck 

Where did this "Chuck" stuff come from?  To quote Kirk McKusick:

> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:33:55 -0800
> From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>
> 
> A pictorial history of the daemon can be found at
> http://www.zilker.net/users/beastie/index.html. Also,
> he does not have a name. If he did have a name, it
> certainly would not be Chuck! So, please do not
> continue this Chuck travesty that Walnut Creek
> CD-ROM started in their catalog!

Greg



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