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off-topic.geek charter
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Date:
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Thu, 6 May 1999 15:45:26 GMT
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JSPROAT@GEOCITIES.COMihatespam
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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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Message has 1 Reply:
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| 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 (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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