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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Why not pick *nice* places for the Usenix conventions?
Message-ID: <3O5C=8C@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <1991Jun23.181459.13052@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <20809@cs.utexas.edu> <1991Jun24.095259.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <1991Jun24.191705.23847@convex.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 14:17:37 GMT

In article <1991Jun24.191705.23847@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
> Three friends and I walked into Rhett's one night looking
> for an alternative to Rachel's, and the maitre d' asked, "May I help you
> with something?"  Come on, we didn't walk into a restaurant just looking
> to use their john!  I heard other reports of this sort of treatment as well.

Were you dressed in the latest BSD fashions?

Ah, you should try going to a Science Fiction convention some time. 

Not to condone this sort of behaviour, but mundanes will be mundanes...
-- 
Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012;         `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"
