RE: Re: [privacy] ACLU Sues Pentagon for Monitoring

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 ahhhh....  Now I gotcha.....   

I got stuck in a traffic jam to day for 3 hours, my brain's not processing correctly :-)


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: Dude VanWinkle [mailto:dudevanwinkle () gmail com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:41 PM
To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)
Cc: drsollyp () drsolly com; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Re: [privacy] ACLU Sues Pentagon for Monitoring

On 6/15/06, Blanchard_Michael () emc com <Blanchard_Michael () emc com> wrote:
> In America, the only prerequisite for joining the Religious Society of
> Friends is that you be non-violent (AFIK).
>
> well that and you cant wear pants with zippers ;-)
>
> -JP<who misses his zippers>
>
>
> ----> Ok, I just have to ask.  Why no zippers on pants?  Is it only
> pants or jackets/shirts/etc as well?  Why zippers in general?
>        Mike's Theory: I would suppose that this is something that goes
> back to the beginning of zippers on pants, and when "nightgowns" were
> worn underneath and I would also suppose that there were many, um,
> personal items getting caught in the zippers, perhaps to the point of
> being severely damaged and thusly preventing future Quakers from being
> created/born.  It was probably easier for some reason to proclaim "no
> more trousers with zippers" than to try and explain to keep your, ehem,
> personal parts, out of harms way when zipping up said trousers.
>
>   Mike B <who WAY over analyzes stuff like this>

The ;-) signifies a joke BTW (By The Way)     -->  ;-)  <--

I guess only other ppl who are Quakers would get the joke so I will explain.

Most people get the Amish and Menonites confused with Quakers. We can
have zippers and cars and can even work in the InfoSec industry (also
also ;-)

I stopped answering "what religon are you" with "Jewish Quaker" when I
got tired of the confused looks after they found out I was in IT and
the inevitable, astonished remark: "but you have a zipper!"

-JP<who has lots of zippers, but prefers velcro>

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