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Re: Ya wanna talk about legislating morality?
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Thu, 5 May 2005 19:39:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
That just may be my new favorite word. What the heck is its etymology?
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IBM Jargon... (1)
Citing without intent to infringe, from an online version of same located
here among
other
places:
mark of Kloomok n. Official indication that a product
has been released from PID. After one M.
Kloomok, the signatory to Shipping letters for many
years. (The letters are no longer signed.) In one
customer memorandum, a person who was trying to
emphasise the legitimacy of a product he was referring
to stated that it bore “the mark of Kloomok”.
It is said this guy sat in Armonk, or Yorktown, or Purchase, or somewhere...(2)
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Heck, I still get a giggle from
gafla.
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Glad to be of service!
++Lar (now an IBMer again, in case you didn’t know)
- - Long long ago there was a samizdat(3) file authored by IBM Fellow Mike Colishaw (4) called the IBM Jargon Dictionary. (5)
- - well, clearly, SOMEWHERE in Westchester County, NY...
- - after a while it wasn’t a samizdat any more, it got Official IBM Blessing. Some say it was a lot less funny after that, as it got watered down.
- - inventor of REXX, and author of early conferencing/forum technology that ran on VM, and one of my heroes.
- - IIRC, it precedes the New Hacker’s Dictionary or Jargon File, another great publication
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) Do we have that on .geek? That is so cool! This is one of the huge list o' reasons why Larry is good for this communiity--a wealth of knowledge (some would say useless, but I like it! (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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