On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Marcia Wilbur wrote:

> Did you see this in last month's Dr. Dobbs? I just read it.
> 
> Hilarious.
> 
> http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=7896/ddj0309m/
> 
Excellent.  Thanks for passing along the URL.

"No this is a much valued figure-of-speech JEWL made by the 
 great MOTHER BELL to govern the running of computer machines 
 this JEWL was called THE UNIX."

Ma Bell was definitely a good mother.  
I thank her everyday for Unix.