[net.misc] Terminal Mumps, no relief

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