Re: The history of Perl Poetry

On 26 Apr, 2005, at 16:18, Andrew Savige wrote:
>
> I always thought it was "the lovely David Adler esq.". :-)

I would never insult dha by insinuating that he is a lawyer. :)

> Having never been to a Perl conference, I don't understand the T-shirt
> joke above. Is there a specific T-shirt being referred to? Or is it
> just that T-shirts in general are popular among geeks?

No, we were just making fun of the "The". Well, at least I was. :)

> (Thanks to e, I know about the "Schwern is my bitch" T-shirt incident).

Actually, it was "Perl is my bitch" which mutated into its present 
form. Look back in the old London.pm archives for a walk down irony 
lane...

e.