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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: STUPID QUESTION
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- References: <246.58.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Message-ID: <9301252403@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Organization: DarkTower Software
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 10:23:25 CST
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- Victor Volkman (victor.volkman@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us) wrote:
- : What in hell is an "ObHack", or for that matter "Ob*".
-
- RTFF. The FAQ was just posted recently, wasn't it?
-
- Anyhow, for me Ob* = obscure, obsolete, obsequious, and the most important
- kind of hack: the obstetrician's (you get it if you deliver a kid
- in a computer science classroom).
-
- Ob is also an "emoticon" of some dude wearing blue-blockers giving
- you the raspberries, like the cool "alt.hackers" types we are ;)
-
- =O) <=== cyberpunk w/his blue-blocker peril-sensitive shades.
- =Ob <=== cyberpunk giving his sysadmin the bronx cheer after being told
- to stop getting root to re-enable alt.hackers
- =O( <=== cyberpunk after the fedz find a pirated copy of MacPlaymate
- on his harddrive and he's going to be doing 5-10 for illegal
- copying of software and being a technoperv after the sysadmin
- turned him in.
- =:| <=== his mugshot during processing -- they took his blue-blockers.
- =:o <=== cyberpunk's face when he finds out how his new "federal" roommate,
- "Meat," got his nickname.
- =:O <=== cyberpunk screaming for the guards after he finds out "Meat"
- is looking for a new "girlfriend."
-
- Get the picture? Anyhow, the real answer is in the FAQ -- I forget
- what it is, I don't pay attention to those things. This is
- alt.hackers after all.
-
- ObHack: Amusing (I hope) people with CyberPunk Emoticons(tm). Gee,
- I wonder if I can make a breakfast cereal out of these...hmm....CyberCereal
- it's got a nice ring to it. Now all I need is some sugar and
- food coloring to make those tasty "marshmallows".
-
- -Louis
-
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