Subject: Re: Tux and Beastie!
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@altair.mayn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/19/1999 01:28:18
Jonathan Stone wrote:
>
>Perry Metzger writes:
>
>>"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> writes:
>>> As all of you no-doubt know by now, Kirk *does* have certain
>>> standards on how the image is used and blowtorching solaris logos or
>>> sodomizing buoyant waterfowl falls well outside those standards.
>
>>And what's wrong with a little consentual sex? I thought that
>>cross-fertilization was what our community was all about! BTW, just to
>>be clear: Penguins have a cloaca, and as such it isn't technically
>>sodomy (ignoring the inter-species aspects).
>
>Havent seen the shirt, but as described, it sounded distinctly
>non-consensual. 
>
>And even if it was -- does it really need to be spelled out why the
>shirt, as a public, visible gesture was offensive and thoroughly inappropriate?

Are the tshirts (or the image) available from somewhere?

While you're all rambling on about what is politically correct
in the typically american puritan style, me and a few friends
(including linux users) would like to have a good laugh.

mkb