via Colin McG:
Not the first time I have heard about people in Texas getting strange
about the "wrong" OS, though in this case it is an OS mascot that
caused grief...
Before I get to that, everyone should be aware of FreeBSD, a free Unix
like OS that has formed the basis behind Macintosh OS-X. The BSD
mascot is known as "Beastie", the story of which can be seen here
(along with links to "Beastie" images):
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html
The story of what happened to Linda Branagan when she wore a Beastie T-shirt to a Texas restaurant :
http://www.rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html
The FreeBSD Daemon
Linda Branagan is an expert on daemons. She has a T-shirt that sports the daemon in tennis shoes that appears on the cover of the 4.3BSD manuals...
She tells the following story about wearing the 4.3BSD daemon T-shirt:
Last week I walked into a local "home style cookin' restaurant/watering hole" in Texas to pick up a take-out order. I spoke briefly to the waitress behind the counter, who told me my order would be done in a few minutes.
So, while I was busy gazing at the farm implements hanging on the walls, I was approached by two "natives." These guys might just be the original Texas rednecks.
``Pardon us, ma'am. Mind if we ask you a question?''...
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