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Subject: 
off-topic.geek charter
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Thu, 6 May 1999 15:45:26 GMT
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jsproat@geocities%Spamless%.com
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LUGNET Server wrote:
CHARTER/PURPOSE:
   lugnet.off-topic.geek (group):
      Geeking and geek toys (computing, games, peripherals, hacking,
      science, etc.): discussions of a generally (but not necessarily
      always) positive and serious or helpful nature.

From Webster's:

geek /'gEk/ n.
  1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually
includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
  2: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of
  Etymology: probably from English dialect geek, geck fool, from Low German
geck, from Middle Low German
  Date: 1914

(pushing glasses to bridge of nose with index finger)  A geek with a date.
Cool!  :-,

...Ya know, item #1 would provide a fascinating show at the next
Legopalooza.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
"I prefer the term para-mental.  It keeps me out of the loony bin."



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  Re: off-topic.geek charter
 
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: <message points rearranged> (...) Maybe we could surpass the Burning Man in popularity.. (...) So what you're saying is that we're gonna have BBQ at Legopalooza? Then no spamcake allowed. No spamlog (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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