[ILUG] [Wayyy OT] Urinating at AGM

[Brady, Padraig]

Also I found the book:
 "Open Sources : Voices from the Open Source Revolution"
really interesting.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John P. Looney (Kate) [mailto:jplooney-ilug at online.ie]
> Sent: 14 June 2000 13:21
> 
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:57:50PM +0100, Justin Mason mentioned:
> >   GOLFER DAVID BAILEY, 40, of Clondalkin, County Dublin, 
> was killed by a rat
> >   which ran up his trouser leg as he hunted for a lost ball 
> at Caddockstown
> >   golfcourse in County Kildare. He startled the animal when 
> he jumped into a
> >   ditch at the first hole. It shot up his leg and urinated 
> on him. His playing
> >   partners advised him to take a shower immediately, but he 
> laughed off the
> >   encounter, saying he had no cuts or bites. He took a 
> shower four hours later
> >   after finishing the round.  However, before this he had 
> touched his leg and
> >   smoked a cigar.  Doctors believe that the deadly Weil's 
> disease carried by the
> >   rat was passed from his fingers to his mouth. He was 
> admitted to a Dublin
> >   hospital with severe jaundice two weeks later, but he 
> died in intensive care
> >   when his kidneys collapsed. D.Mirror, 30 Aug 1996.
> 
>  Soooo OT. I was working in beaumont hospital ICU when he was 
> admitted.
> Weils is nasty. Turns you yellowy, and bloats you to twice your normal
> weight. There will be no urinating on people allowed at the AGM.
> 
>  Trying to get back on topic, one of the books O'Reilly sent me, "The
> cathedral and the Bazaar", is actually a compilation of all 
> his papers in
> the area. Really good book. And only £12...sterling... One of 
> the quotes
> from the back is actually from the microsoft "Halloween" document.
> 
> Kate