Subject: Re: The opposite of recovery From: Kristopher Means Organization: Dewey Decimal Reply-To: kmeans@kill.all.spammers.com Newsgroups: alt.tech-support.recovery In our last episode, Jeff Liebermann wrote: > Some of more experienced users have adopted hacker terms for the > symbology. > * = splat > % = pretzel > ^ = hat > ! = bang > ? = duh > ASCII = Hackski > I barely remember all that and am thankful that it's generally gone. I posted this once before in a.t-s.r and survived, but it's been a while [1] and I thought that it would be apropo to this thread. >From around February, 1997 - The following poem appeared recently in INFOCUS magazine. The original authors were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of Grand Rapids, MI. A poll conducted among INFOCUS readers had established "waka" as the proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters <> though some readers held out resolutely for "norkies." The text of the poem follows: <>!*''# ^"`$$- !*=@$_ %*<> ~#4 &[]../ |{,,SYSTEM HALTED The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit: Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash, Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash, Bang splat equal at dollar under-score, Percent splat waka waka tilde number four, Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash, Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH. [1] Not only was it B.C. (Before Chicken), but Eric was still doing the FAQ if that tells you anything. -- Kris kmeans at mindspring dot com Spam bait - rhundt@fcc.gov jquello@fcc.gov sness@fcc.gov rchong@fcc.gov