Phoenix.pm: Web site ideas
Doug and Julie Miles
dmiles at primenet.com
Fri Apr 16 18:51:41 CDT 1999
At 12:46 PM 4/16/99 -0700, you wrote:
>The Omaha.pm group has some funny stuff up, such as the following
>swearing in ceremony:
>>------------------------------
>>Swearing In Ceremony
>>Here is a sample ceremony involving a new initiate
>>named "John Doe":
>>
>>Please place your left hand on the Blue Camel, raise your right
>>hand, and repeat after me:
>>
>>"I, (state your name),"
>> "I, John Doe,"
>>"Believe that Perl is as Perl does,"
>> "Believe that Perl is as Perl does,"
>>"So I will try to do more stuff with it."
>> "So I will try to do more stuff with it."
>>"So help me Larry."
>> "So help me Larry."
>>"You are hereby dubbed $monger{Omaha}[n]," (stating the index 'n')
>>"or just 'Number n', for short." (re-affirming the index 'n' )
>>"push @{ $monger{Omaha} }, "John Doe";" (assigning the index 'n')
>>
>>This last line is pronounced :
>>'push to HoA monger Omaha, "John Doe".' The 'HoA' rhymes with
>>'Boa' ... as in 'constrictor'.
>>
>>With that, the formal ceremony is complete. The initiate now enjoys
>>all of the benefits, rights, and privileges of full membership
>>(whatever those may be ... I haven't noticed any).
>>---------------------------------
This is great! I might have to ask if we can steal this. :)
>Is there a topic decided for the next meeting? Two things that I
>think would be interesting is an in depth intro to Object Oriented
>Perl (almost like a verbal version of perltoot... depending on the
>knowledge base of those who are plan on attending the next meeting)
>or different types of database access with Perl.
So noted. Any volunteers?
Doug and Julie Miles
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