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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