Ubuntu Love, Lancaster Style
I thought you might like to hear this story, since it pertains to ourfavourite distro and also to our shop's products.
Picture the scene, if you will: A man, bearded, long-haired,dashingly^Whandsome^W generally me-like, walks through the centre ofLancaster on a busy Wednesday afternoon. He's wearing, proudly, theUbuntu Hoodie as purchased from the very wonderful Canonical shop forthe small sum of roughly twenty of your human pounds.
He passes a group of school kids, perhaps fifteen or so in age, who areloitering with malice aforethought in what passes for the city's mainsquare.
An exchange* follows, with the following dramatis personae:
- KID #1: Stereotypical straggly-haired youth: acne-ridden and squeaky of voice.
- KID #2: Second stereotypical straggly-haired youth, but with less acne and wearing braces on his teeth.
- MAN: Our Ubuntu-hoodie-wearing hero.
KID #1: Mate! 'Scuse me mate!
MAN: Hamnoo?
KID #1: Does it say "Ubuntu" on your top?
MAN: Yep.
KID #1: Cool! Ubuntu rocks!
MAN: Glad you like it. You've tried it then?
KID #1: Yeah. Like, I have to run Windows for school, right, but yeah, I play wi't Live CD for, wassisname - Gutsy. Liked it.
KID #2: What's Ubun-thing?
KID #1: It's like Windows but not, you know, a bag of shite, like.
KID #2: Cool. It's cool, right?
KID #1: Yeah, it's well sick**. I'll get you a CD of t'internet if you want.
KID #2: Yeah, cool.
MAN: You can get CDs made if you want to give it out to your mates. [gives shipit address and details]
KID #1: Yeah, I'll do that. Cheers
... and our hero wanders off into the sunset***, happy to have helpedspread the word a little further.
Footnotes:
- * I've edited out the less intelligible East-Lancs dialect so as to make this readable for anyone who's not me.
- ** 'Sick' is, I'm told by my other half, who's a trainee teacher, the new yoof speak for 'Good'.
- *** Well, Woolworth's, but you get the idea.
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