gumby@mit-eddie.UUCP (David Vinayak Wallace) (07/07/83)
Is "tubular" complimentary or derogatory? That is, if someone tells me that I have "a totally tubular computer" should I thank them? genuinely confused, david
gumby@mit-eddie.UUCP (07/07/83)
Relay-Version:version B 2.10 5/3/83; site wjh12.UUCP Posting-Version:version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path:wjh12!genrad!mit-eddie!gumby Message-ID:<406@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date:Wed, 6-Jul-83 23:25:12 EDT Organization:MIT, Cambridge, MA Is "tubular" complimentary or derogatory? That is, if someone tells me that I have "a totally tubular computer" should I thank them? genuinely confused, david
fred@umcp-cs.UUCP (07/08/83)
From: gumby@mit-eddie Is "tubular" complimentary or derogatory? That is, if someone tells me that I have "a totally tubular computer" should I thank them? genuinely confused, david Around here all our computer equipment is solid-state. I haven't used a tubular computer in years.
mike@sdcrdcf.UUCP (07/11/83)
As I have just moved from Encino, Ca. (two blocks from the the Galleria), I can say with some authority that the abovementioned phrase had exactly the right affect on you (ie left you confused). Actually, tubular is one of the influxes of surf-speak on val, and comes from the root "tube", the phenomenon of water rushing in a cylindrical shape, and the adjunct "tubed", which is being surrounded by such an oceanic occurence. This is the penultimate experience for a surfer, and is therefore a strongly positive adjective. Surfers find some relation between the euphoric rush of being "tubed", and the rush of smoking good grass, so the term "tubed" can also be used to refer (pun ?) to one in a more "fubar" like condition (which seems to be the second most desirable experience). "it's fingers danced to a private rhumba all their own..." Mike Williams System Development Corp. UUCP: randvax!sdcrdcf!mike burdvax!sdcrdcf!mike ucla-vax!sdcrdcf!mike cbosgd!sdcrdcf!mike ihnss!sdcrdcf!mike