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Re: We're all Anoraks on this bus (was Sadness
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Sun, 23 Dec 2001 19:53:28 GMT
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"Maggie Cambron" <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:Got0JI.It6@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jason J. Railton writes:
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> > > Not biting today, huh Loz?
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> > BTW, Every AFOL I know (and some that reject the label but are AFOLs anyway)
> > is an Anorak. So what?
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> Okay, this here Bozo is ignorant. I thought an anorak was some kind of warm
> jacket from L.L. Bean.
Anoraks are indeed a warm jacket.
As such, they are commonly worn by Train Spotters - who spend all day on cold station platforms waiting to note down
train numbers (geez, that must be exciting).
Hence Anorak being used as a term to describe someone with a hobby which is perceived by others to be a bit obsessive,
and by their standards dull and boring.
lawrence
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| (...) Which is why I said it applies to us. NOT meant as an insult, I don't find it as insulting a term as some of those in the UK do. (see thoughts on what it means to be a hacker and the hacker trance, and some other topics, in the jargon file... (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Okay, this here Bozo is ignorant. I thought an anorak was some kind of warm jacket from L.L. Bean. (...) You mean like the editors of Time magazine selling out and calling Giuliani Person of the Year because they didn't have the *ahem* guts to (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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