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Re: off-topic.geek charter
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 6 May 1999 16:32:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
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> ...Ya know, item #1 would provide a fascinating show at the next
> Legopalooza.
Maybe we could surpass the Burning Man in popularity..
> From Webster's:
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> 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
So what you're saying is that we're gonna have BBQ at Legopalooza? Then no
spamcake allowed. No spamlog allowed either.(1)
> 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
Sounds like some people's opinions of lego builders. (Certainly not mine! :)
> Date: 1914
I'll bet it goes further back than that. The abacus is much older so computing
devices, and therefore geeks, are centuries old. Like ketchup, pasta, paper,
and gunpowder, it would be just like China to come up with the first geek too.
> (pushing glasses to bridge of nose with index finger) A geek with a date.
> Cool! :-,
-Tom McD.
(1) Spamlog differs from spamcake in two minor points: it's shape: roughly
cylindrical - any length to width ratio surpassing 10 to 1 is considered
spamcable; and two more additional ingredients: trace amounts of headcheese and
haagas.
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| (...) But only if dancing nude in the moonlight was encouraged. :-, (...) No, I'm saying that we could get Ozzy Osbourne to perform with live animals for us. ...Or was it Alice Cooper? Trent Reznor? Marilyn Manson? Tommy Smothers? We could BBQ the (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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