On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Steven Brust wrote: > > > Apropos--did you know that some students at MIT invented an > > onomatopoeiatron? > >*l* No, I did not...do tell, what is an "onomatopoeiatron"? > <blinks and looks innocent> Just what it sounds like. *groan* Oh dear, I walked right into that one... So, if I'm reading this right, it is something one inputs a sound file into and receives a text printout of the sound, ne? (Have to use this one on my grad student friends...) K, while we're on this, does anyone practice "tetrapyloctomy" or have "triskadekaphobia"? > >I'll concur on that one. As it is obvious, I use some slang, and also > >computer acronyms *hangs head in shame*. > You should be ashamed. You must now be severely spanked with a rolled up > hardcopy of jargon.txt. And will that follow with oral sex? (For anyone who didn't get that, GO WATCH MONTY PYTHON!) "First, you must give us all a spanking." "Ooh, a spanking!" "And then, the oral sex!" ****** NyteMuse "Call her life unnatural, feel her undead breath. Color her black for sorcery, color her gray for death." AIM: NyteMuse139 / ICQ: #21966269 (NyteMuse) MSN: NyteMuse / Yahoo!ID: NyteMuse http://www.crowfire.com