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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:07:08 +0100
From:      "Dyas, Alex" <alex.dyas@wcom.co.uk>
To:        'Alfred Perlstein' <bright@wintelcom.net>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Douglas Adams, ApacheCon, and horns aplenty
Message-ID:  <1EC8C16BC185D311ACB90008C7C563F3032C9A42@gblon1c3ex1.wcom.co.uk>

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> * Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> [001027 04:14] wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > Thought some of you might get a kick out of this.
> > 
> > We (i.e., BSDi) were at ApacheCon in London 
> Tuesday/Wednesday of this week.
> > 
> > The keynote speaker on Tuesday night was Douglas Adams.  
> > 
> > I wasn't in the auditorium to witness it myself, but 
> apparently he stopped
> > in mid-sentence part way through his presentation, and in somewhat 
> > incredulous tones said
> > 
> >     Er, are people wearing *horns* in here?
> > 
> > which prompted much laughter from the conference goers.
> > 
> > I'm just kicking myself that I didn't have the presence of 
> mind to hand him
> > a pair before he started. . .
> 
> What percentage of the audiance/conferece were wearing the 
> horns?  Just
> wonderdering how much of a presense we had.
> 
> -Alfred

Speaking as someone who had to peer through a set of horns to see Douglas
Adams on stage, there were a fair number of them dotted around the audience.
Some of them were even flashing, about which he also remarked.  BSDi had a
booth at the Expo, I think that's were all the horns originated.  Very
interesting talk by him, and a fantastic conference in general. 

http://www.apachecon.com/2000/EU/html/speakers.html/

alex..
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