* Dave Cross (dave@dave.org.uk) wrote: > > This is just a mutution of the "Perl is my bitch" meme that infected > london.pm in the summer of 2000. There was discussion of printing > t-shirts with that slogan for the first YAPC::Europe, and of the > appropriateness (or otherwise) of YAS being associated with the > slogan. When the shirts finally appeared at the end of 2000, they had > been printed privately. As this is packrats and i must assume this will be recorded, hence I'd like to pedantically correct the above. YAPC::Europe never intended to print the t-shirts for the conference, a party who I shall not name was already going to print the t-shirts and offered to donate the profits to YAPC::Europe. This fragile (although some will disagree) connection lead to all sorts of ``discussion''. > When the Damian sponsorship idea was first widely discussed (at YAPC::Europe, > London, Sept 2000), there was some talk of printing "Damian is my bitch" > t-shirts to raise the mon ey. This never happened, but during 2001, Schwern spent > some time working for Blackstar in Belfast (partly in response to their large > donation to the Damian fund). The combination of all these factors lead to > the "Schwern is my bitch" shirts appearing at YAPC::Europe 2001 in Amsterdam. > They were unveiled en masse when the Belfast.pm contingent took front row seats in Schwern's talk and then proceeded to remove their jumpers/coats/shirts whatever to reveal the SimB t-shirts during his talk. At the auction Schwern signed a couple of them, hence making them in his own words ``legally binding'' ;-). Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://greg@jabber.mccarroll.org.uk