colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (07/28/84)
[Be-bop-a-lu-la, bash-bang-slash] You don't get off that easy! Here are three you missed: ? quark Telegraphese \ bash Short for 'backslash' ^ fang Looks like one, and rhymes with 'bang' Haven't you ever done a fang-bash-bang-fang on UNIX? Or how about a fang-bash-hash-fang-dash- ... ? By the way, !<BS>? is an "interrobang", not an "interabang". Why won't ANSI standardize these names? -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel
colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (07/28/84)
[By George! I actually knocked him down without any extra spinach.] Two more for the books: @ cat Short for "commercial at" - or fancied resemblance to a curled-up cat $ cash Self-explanatory -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel