LOL, I still am sore that they wouldn't let us borrow their chicken picture (that was in Dallas)!
Regards, Jeff Jeff Broadwick ImageStream 800-813-5123 x106 (US/Can) +1 574-935-8484 x106 (Int'l) -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:39 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] [OT] Chicken Currency I love that story. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 4/25/2010 12:24 AM, Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > 95% of the members of this list are probably not familiar with an old > WISPCON story that had to do with chickens being currency in Latvia > and how I love to throw some abuse at the Mikrotik guys about this when I > see them. For those 5% though, I think you will appreciate that > perhaps the Latvians are actually ahead of us: > > http://lowdenplan.com/ > > The full Mikrotik chicken story is at the end of this email, for those > of you who might be interested. > > Matt Larsen > vistabeam.com > > The Mikrotik Chickens story > > During one of the Chicago WISPCONs (4 or 5, I believe) we had an > off-campus excursion that involved limosines, liquor and late night > activities. At one point in the evening, I was in a limo with Arnis > from Mikrotik. For those who don't know him, Arnis is a very > softspoken and intelligent guy. The rest of the people in the limo > were pretty loud and raucus, while Arnis mostly sat quietly and > watched. At some point in the conversation, John Scrivner asked him > what the "gentlemen's clubs" in Latvia were like. At the same time, > someone else was talking about getting some fried chicken and coming up > with money to get it. Between the two conversations, I thought that > something was said about chickens being used as currency in Latvia. > Smart ass that I am, I thought I'd make a comment: > > Me: "Hey John, what's the worst thing about a Latvian gentleman's club?" > John: "I don't know." > Me: "Slipping the chickens into the dancer's G-string!" > > From that point on, I have been quite boorishly giving the Mikrotik > guys the business about chickens as currency. A picture of a chicken > in a hotel lobby became the "Latvian Express Card". An order of wings > is "pocket change" Etc etc. It has been an endless source of > amusement for me, and not particularly funny to anyone else. > > Arnis got me at the last MUM. He saw my business name (Vistabeam) and > started laughing at me. I asked him what was so funny. He said that > "Vista" means chicken in Latvian. So the Latvian version of my > business name is "Chicken Wireless". Of course, this turned out to be > total BS, but I didn't get it figured out until a week later when I > went online and figured out that the Latvian word for chicken is "calis". > > Well played Arnis. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
