Re: PostgreSQL OSCON Booth Bunnies needed

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL OSCON Booth Bunnies needed
Date: 2007-06-05 17:09:25
Message-ID: 466598C5.4000504@commandprompt.com
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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>> Uhmmm... I think we need to step back off the politically correct train
>> a moment. Anyone, who is reading this list, knows *exactly* what I
>> meant. If they don't they are more than capable of emailing me directly
>> and asking me what I meant.
>>
>> Booth Bunnies is a very common term.
>
> Sorry, but I agree with Josh B. on this. I've only ever heard it used in
> one way, and it is simply a poor choice of terms. Why not just say "we need
> volunteers to help run the booth"? There may be a way to stretch and say
> we're using it ironically (and insinuating that we're ugly but knowledgable?),
> but at the end of the day, it does nobody any good to use the term.

*shrug*

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