what I have learned today.

[Kim]

Yup.  Simple Ceaser cypher.  Used as a functional equivalent of the [spoiler] tag in text-only media, and to obfuscate names of people/organisations/things you want to post defamatory rants about, so they don't come up on search engines.

Certain newsgroups use it excessively for comic effect, as a sort of swear filter for terms they find offensive.  So as we might talk of the "p*nct*r* fairy", denizens of ye shedde might say "have to ohl an arj one", or monks of the scary devil monastery might talk about supporting Hohagh^[1] Linux.  The net effect of this is that you end up learning them as words in their own right, as it's less jbex than reaching for the ROT13 button to decode them...


_{[1] The official Linux Distribution of the Klingon Empire.}

[clarion]

That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.

In conjunction with the adjective 'bijou', no doubt.  This is a construction I use in all sorts of wildly inappropriate scenarios.

[Tim Hall]

Yup.  Simple Ceaser cypher.  Used as a functional equivalent of the [spoiler] tag in text-only media, and to obfuscate names of people/organisations/things you want to post defamatory rants about, so they don't come up on search engines.

Certain newsgroups use it excessively for comic effect, as a sort of swear filter for terms they find offensive.  So as we might talk of the "p*nct*r* fairy", denizens of ye shedde might say "have to ohl an arj one", or monks of the scary devil monastery might talk about supporting Hohagh^[1] Linux.  The net effect of this is that you end up learning them as words in their own right, as it's less jbex than reaching for the ROT13 button to decode them...


_{[1] The official Linux Distribution of the Klingon Empire.}

Although I've never visited the Scary Devil Monastery and ain't been in ye shedde for ages, I translated hohagh in my head. Should I be proud or slightly worried?

[barakta]

Today I discovered I have a propensity for threatening behavior when people keep touching me and we asked more than four times to stop touching me that I can make people afraid.

I'm not a nice person, because I can not deal with a situation without resorting to violence and showing a side of me that makes loved ones feel afraid of me.

I think when you have used your words and told people to stop touching you once nevermind more than one that escalating to violence is understandable and not unreasonable. I don't think this is a pathological problem or anything which makes you a bad person.  Repeated unwanted touching is not nice!

[Efrogwr]

That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.

Oooo! In'n 'e BOLD!

Not ony that, but I have ridden on the Ball's Pond Road...

[Efrogwr]

That "tripette" a word I use to refer to an outing of less than a couple of days was first used by Julian and Sandy.

In conjunction with the adjective 'bijou', no doubt.  This is a construction I use in all sorts of wildly inappropriate scenarios.

Not so far, but I will start to use it for outings of less than a day.

[tiermat]

That the bull emblem that the rest of Europe has come to see as representing Spain was originally an advertisement for Sherry. Worse than that, though is that it has now been appropriated by the  Spanish far right.

[Ham]

That the bull emblem that the rest of Europe has come to see as representing Spain was originally an advertisement for Sherry. Worse than that, though is that it has now been appropriated by the  Spanish far right.

I learned that before I stuck a burro Catalan on the back of the motor, finding out its significance seemed like a good idea. (ans: not a lot, but if you guys are going to have a silly bull without much real history, we'll have a donkey)

[billplumtree]

That the actor who was Potsie off of Happy Days is a second cousin of Dr Henry Heimlich, he of the manoeuvre.

[David Martin]

That the walrus is Paul.

[Mr Larrington]

That the walrus is Paul.

And he's [not] dead.

[rafletcher]

What some of the meanings of "knapdarloch" are 

[clarion]

That there were, in fact, eight spin offs from Happy Days, and that it was itself a spin off show.

To list:

Love, American Style
begat
Happy Days
begat
Mork & Mindy
Mork & Mindy (animated series)
Laverne & Shirley
Laverne & Shirley In The Army (animated series)
Joanie Loves Chachi
Out Of The Blue
Blansky's Beauties
The Fonz & The Happy Days Gang (animated series)

I wonder if this is a record.

[Torslanda]

"No. A record is a round thing with a hole in the middle . . ."

Copyright Minn Diffgain.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

The crest on Kenyan passports contains a white cockerel holding an axe, and the images on the passport pages are of African wildlife but no zebras.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Well of course no zebras: that'd be like a random bar code in the middle of your passport!

[Mr Larrington]

Well of course no zebras: that'd be like a random bar code in the middle of your passport!

SPLORT!!!1!

[Cudzoziemiec]

That the first interracial screen kiss was not Star Trek nor that 1960s hospital thing, it was a film called Java Head way back in 1934!

It's been claimed that the mildly racy Java Head made history with the first inter-racial kiss ever shown on screen.

Maybe!

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...

Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...

[Guy]

Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...

Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...

It's enough to make you chuck your router in the bin and go and be a spoon-whittler in the woods!

[MagnusOpus]

Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...

Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...

no Arctic Monkeys? def lepard? and how did they forget cud?

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...

Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...

no Arctic Monkeys? def lepard? and how did they forget cud?

I hung up after 25 minutes, so I might have missed some.

[Tim Hall]

Plusnet's on hold music is Joe Cocker, Pulp, Human League, Kaiser Chiefs, ABC...

Robert Palmer, Heaven 17...

no Arctic Monkeys? def lepard? and how did they forget cud?

I hung up after 25 minutes, so I might have missed some.

Go for the talk on line to one of our agents option.  It works much better (for me) than all that hold music.  Of course your work arrangements might preclude this.

[Kim]

Now I'm wondering what AAISP's hold music is...

ETA: I've just asked on IRC and it appears their policy is to have someone answer the phone.  Spoilsports.