[Baypiggies] Message sent to Suresh (baypiggies meetup)

[Karen Dalton]

I similarly and immediately interpreted it to be an intentional derogatory reference. 

For a person painting themselves as a "hero" there are so many un-heroic things being done by that person. 

-Karen

> On Jan 16, 2016, at 12:44 PM, William Deegan <bdbaddog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I beleive he meant to use the work "Prig" which is more commonly used by the english than americans.
> 
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prig
> one who offends or irritates by observance of proprieties (as of speech or manners) in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree
> 
> I'm 90% sure it's meant to be offensive..
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Marilyn Davis <send2md at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wondered what the "RIG" was.  It had me lol:
>> 
>> Rigorous Indulgence Group 
>> 
>> what a scam!  Hero?  Hah!
>> 
>> +1 for doing whatever you can.
>> 
>> Marilyn Davis
>> 
>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:49 PM, David Knupp <knupp at well.com> wrote:
>>> The problem is worse than people misreading the URL. The original URL now simply redirects to Suresh’s group:
>>> 
>>> # original URL
>>> >>> url = 'http://www.meetup.com/baypiggies/'
>>> >>> tree = lxml.html.parse(url)
>>> >>> tree.find('.//title').text
>>> 'Bay Area Python 3.x Rigorous Indulgence Group (BayPRIGgies) (Palo Alto, CA)\n\n\n- Meetup'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> # new URL
>>> >>> url = 'http://www.meetup.com/baypriggies/'
>>> >>> tree = lxml.html.parse(url)
>>> >>> tree.find('.//title').text
>>> 'Bay Area Python 3.x Rigorous Indulgence Group (BayPRIGgies) (Palo Alto, CA)\n\n\n- Meetup’
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 15, 2016, at 9:39 AM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> >>Suresh has changed the name of his meetup to BayPRIGgies which has the new url:
>>>> Well, I'm sure that people will misread that from time to time as Baypiggies.
>>>> Surely he can come up with a better naming convention
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Bernd <berndca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Suresh has changed the name of his meetup to BayPRIGgies which has the new url:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.meetup.com/BayPRIGgies/
>>>>> 
>>>>> and added the following to the top of the groups home page:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Disclaimer:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We have nothing to do with the previous decades' organizations bearing the name BayPIGgies and the associated website or email.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This should allow us to recover our groups url and past meetups with the help of meetup tech support.
>>>>> We would have to create a new meetup group for BayPIGgies.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I understand that this is certainly not an ideal route. However I this might be our easiest route right now.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, Bernd
>>>>> 
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