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title: "Top Ten Most Frequently Things Overheard* at RailsConf '07 in Portland, OR"
description: "10. \"WTF, I've been here four days and have yet to see the Space Needle...\" 9. \"Is DHH single?\" 8. \"I just started working for a startup...\" 7. \"So, can Rails…"
author: "Kevin Hunt"
date: "2007-05-21"
kind: "archive"
tags: ["RailsConf"]
canonical: "https://kev.in/writing/top-ten-most-frequently-said-things-at-railsconf-07-in-portland-or"
---

# Top Ten Most Frequently Things Overheard* at RailsConf '07 in Portland, OR

_From the archive: written in 2007._

-   10\. "WTF, I've been here four days and have yet to see the Space Needle..."
-   9\. "Is DHH single?"
-   8\. "I just started working for a startup..."
-   7\. "So, can Rails scale?"
-   6\. "pastie.caboo.se? Is that another name for 'programmer's-butt'?"
-   5\. "OK, but what's your plan for revenue generation?"
-   4\. "No it doesn't do that yet, but if you submit a patch..."
-   3\. "Twitter is lame. Who cares what you had for lunch?"
-   2\. "just ate turkey sandwich, wasn't very good 1:04 PM May 20, 2007 from twitterrific"

And the number one thing overheard at RailsConf '07:

-   1\. "Fuck you in the neck!"

\* - Totally made up, except the last one, which, when spat out by Zed Shaw, sent a shock wave through the adjacent conference rooms, and indeed may have shifted the Pacific plate a few inches to the west.