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Surely, with talk of "pumpkings" the logical name for a Perl working group is a "patch", with obvious puns clearly available.... Regards, Simon -- No witty tag today. >>> "David Pitts" <dpitts@mk.net> 23/07/00 06:06:12 >>> I was thinking something along the lines of a posse. I guess it could then become The Perl Posse. Sheriff Larry would lead the posse in rounding up the criminal code and locking it away forever. Thanks, David David Pitts President, Pitts Technical Resources, Inc (859) 552-3262 www.dpitts.com dpitts@mk.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Uri Guttman" <uri@sysarch.com> To: <bootstrap@perl.org> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 12:12 AM Subject: rename 'working group', 'something better' ; > > at gnat's (wonderful) party i was interested to hear larry and gloria > say they both disliked the term 'working group' and they and others were > interested in a better name. larry proposed 'cloysters' (sic) with the > pun on pearl. other names bandied about include nursery (both with the > growth and high energy dynamic meanings), tent (from sarathy) and > kibbutz (a communal group). i entered 'group' into thesaurus.com and > found one i like, conflux. it has the feeling of temporary and change > with flux and the group is covered with con. > > anyhow, i just wanted to start a thread on this. patches welcome. > > uri > > -- > Uri Guttman --------- uri@sysarch.com ---------- http://www.sysarch.com > SYStems ARCHitecture, Software Engineering, Perl, Internet, UNIX Consulting > The Perl Books Page ----------- http://www.sysarch.com/cgi-bin/perl_books > The Best Search Engine on the Net ---------- http://www.northernlight.com > ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************Thread Previous | Thread Next