Muttering (was Re: Funny things to do to your coworkers...)
Berry Kercheval
Matthew> I find that cursing like Yosemite Sam works nearly as
Matthew> well as muttering fake expletives.
I remember once I was working on the front porch and watching my
2-year-old son at the same time. I turned around and discovered he
had PICKED UP the end of an 8 foot 4x4. I said "Ack!"
He dropped it.
On my toe.
Things went into slow motion. I knew I had to yell, but I had to be
careful *what* I yelled. But it had to be *satisfying* to yell.
"BLORNFRAZZLE!" I yelled.
I was glad I did, too, since for the next week the little devil would
up and say "Blornfrazzle! hahahahahahah! Blornfrazzle! hahahahahah"
at the oddest times. I'm glad I didn't yell something, um, stronger.
--berry
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Electel
ta...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz says...
>
>In article <4e9m15$r...@news1.halcyon.com>,
>Debbie Schwartz <d...@chinook.halcyon.com> wrote:
>> <ke...@parc.xerox.com> spake thusly:
>> >
>> >"BLORNFRAZZLE!" I yelled.
>>
>> I nominate this for the G-rated version of the asr battle cry.
>> Also as our secret codeword - now all someone has to do is
>> come up with the handshake.
>> --
>> Debbie Schwartz d...@halcyon.com (Seattle, WA)
>> "That's why I'm not married - I'm devoting my life to being a
>> psychiatric patient. It's like being a nun, but more expensive."
>> -- Shelley Long in "The Cracker Factory"
>
>Forget the handshake, how about rm -rf * in deaf sign language?
>
>Rob.
Why not "Kill -9"? Or perhaps a simple phrase, ie: "bulk erase" or "waffle
iron?" };)
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Debbie Schwartz <d...@chinook.halcyon.com> wrote:
> <ke...@parc.xerox.com> spake thusly:
> >
> >"BLORNFRAZZLE!" I yelled.
>
> I nominate this for the G-rated version of the asr battle cry.
> Also as our secret codeword - now all someone has to do is
> come up with the handshake.
> --
> Debbie Schwartz d...@halcyon.com (Seattle, WA)
> "That's why I'm not married - I'm devoting my life to being a
> psychiatric patient. It's like being a nun, but more expensive."
> -- Shelley Long in "The Cracker Factory"
Forget the handshake, how about rm -rf * in deaf sign language?
Rob.
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>>Forget the handshake, how about rm -rf * in deaf sign language?
I'm considering aliasing rm -rf * to fist_fuck.
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Debbie Schwartz <d...@chinook.halcyon.com> wrote:
>I nominate this for the G-rated version of the asr battle cry.
>Also as our secret codeword - now all someone has to do is
>come up with the handshake.
We have that. (mimed) down, not across.
Nick Cuccia
Michael Handler <gre...@netaxs.com> wrote:
>In <4e9m15$r...@news1.halcyon.com>,
>Debbie Schwartz <d...@chinook.halcyon.com> wrote:
>> now all someone has to do is come up with the handshake.
>first two fingers of your left hand, held together, from your wrist to
>the crook of your elbow.
You are a seriously sick and twisted individual. Yet again, you've made me go
running for the paper towels and Windex.
Remind me to buy you a beer at the Chicago LISA conference if Avi lets you
go ;^).
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Sean Berry
><ke...@parc.xerox.com> spake thusly:
>>
>>"BLORNFRAZZLE!" I yelled.
>I nominate this for the G-rated version of the asr battle cry.
>Also as our secret codeword - now all someone has to do is
>come up with the handshake.
We've found that when something significantly wins on bootup (f.e. putting a
machine together from scraps of several dead machines and having it come up
with absolutely no problems and actually for some odd reason have a usable
OS on the disk with useful research data from years back) a high five is
most appropriate, intermingled with the dance of joy (something akin to Doug
Flutie's touchdown dance ( american football player )).
As for the hand shake, most admins don't seem to care for physical contact.
A none-too-obvious peace symbol seems to work around here. :)
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Ivor von Wolfsheim <kuj...@mekab.usc.edu> wrote...
> ele...@coil.com (Electel) writes:
>
> >>Forget the handshake, how about rm -rf * in deaf sign language?
>
> I'm considering aliasing rm -rf * to fist_fuck.
I am very glad I had finished my tea before reading this.
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MegaZone
>ele...@coil.com (Electel) writes:
>
>>>Forget the handshake, how about rm -rf * in deaf sign language?
>
>I'm considering aliasing rm -rf * to fist_fuck.
-From my .cshrc:
alias nuke '/usr/bin/rm -rf'
Of course, the people who need to be killed are those who alias
'compress' to 'feather'.
-MZ
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Ian Chard
>In article <DLtDD...@actrix.gen.nz>, posted on Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:29:51 GMT,
>ta...@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz says...
>>
>>In article <4e9m15$r...@news1.halcyon.com>,
>>Debbie Schwartz <d...@chinook.halcyon.com> wrote:
>>> <ke...@parc.xerox.com> spake thusly:
>>> >
>>> >"BLORNFRAZZLE!" I yelled.
>>>
>>> I nominate this for the G-rated version of the asr battle cry.
>>> Also as our secret codeword - now all someone has to do is
>>> come up with the handshake.
>>> --
>>> Debbie Schwartz d...@halcyon.com (Seattle, WA)
>>> "That's why I'm not married - I'm devoting my life to being a
>>> psychiatric patient. It's like being a nun, but more expensive."
>>> -- Shelley Long in "The Cracker Factory"
>>
>>Forget the handshake, how about rm -rf * in deaf sign language?
>>
>>Rob.
>Why not "Kill -9"? Or perhaps a simple phrase, ie: "bulk erase" or "waffle
>iron?" };)
For some reason, several people in a Prolog course I took a few years ago
aliased "prolog" to "hasanyonehandedinaleftvulcanear".
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Howard Harvey
> (something akin to Doug Flutie's touchdown dance (american football player)
Sorry to break it to you, as of late Flutie plays QB for the
Calgary Stampeders of the CFL up here in the "BLORNFRAZZLE!" bejesus
frozen f***ing tundra of Canada.......
Only victory dance we've been doing up here lately is is
stomping around in a parka like an epileptic penguin to
stave off frost bite.....
sorry, one lousy grey cup since 1991 has made us Calgary fans
a tad testy........
2
H hha...@lis.ab.ca
Alex
: sorry, one lousy grey cup since 1991 has made us Calgary fans
: testy
Hmmm... almost as many as us here on the eastern half with Toronto
and Montreal... oh... wait, Montreal lost their team a while ago
didn't they? Hmmm... maybe that's why they don't show many games
on TV anymore. (=
-- Alex
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Rob Blake
>
>I'm considering aliasing rm -rf * to fist_fuck.
>
I've got the following i my .cshrc file
alias 'diescum' shutdown -r now
It's so satisfying to type 'diescum' at your machine and watch it crumple
up and die. :-)
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Ivor von Wolfsheim
> >I'm considering aliasing rm -rf * to fist_fuck.
>I've got the following i my .cshrc file
>alias 'diescum' shutdown -r now
>It's so satisfying to type 'diescum' at your machine and watch it crumple
>up and die. :-)
alias shutdown="rm -rf / ;#"
-ivor
Ry Jones
>In alt.sysadmin.recovery and bofh.general,
> Ivor von Wolfsheim <kuj...@mekab.usc.edu> wrote...
>> ele...@coil.com (Electel) writes:
>>
I just spewed Mountain Dew when I read that.
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Oleg Volk
Looking though som eof his directory found a shell script called
"fuck".
Opened it. Learned that the use is such...
fuck (username)
Effect: kill sthat user's processies and then boots off the BBS with a
nastyy message. That was written back then when some loser was found
trying to down a BBS running Linux...
>>>>Forget the handshake, how about rm -rf * in deaf sign language?
>>
>>I'm considering aliasing rm -rf * to fist_fuck.
>-From my .cshrc:
>alias nuke '/usr/bin/rm -rf'
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Abby Franquemont-Guillory
Debbie Schwartz <d...@chinook.halcyon.com> wrote:
><ke...@parc.xerox.com> spake thusly:
>>
>>"BLORNFRAZZLE!" I yelled.
>
>I nominate this for the G-rated version of the asr battle cry.
>Also as our secret codeword - now all someone has to do is
>come up with the handshake.
That's easy. Just hold out your coffee cup and let your hand shake
spasmodically.
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)<ke...@parc.xerox.com> spake thusly:
)>
)>"BLORNFRAZZLE!" I yelled.
)
)I nominate this for the G-rated version of the asr battle cry.
^
Which of course made me associate to group-privilegies...
)Also as our secret codeword - now all someone has to do is
)come up with the handshake.
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Debbie Schwartz
>In article <4e9m15$r...@news1.halcyon.com> d...@chinook.halcyon.com (Debbie Schwartz) writes:
>)<ke...@parc.xerox.com> spake thusly:
>)I nominate this for the G-rated version of the asr battle cry.
I want y'all to know I actually used "Blornfrazzle" today -
when I discovered today that someone who should know better removed
an external scsi tape drive from one of our lab SGI Onyxs
- without bothering to power the machine off. The daemon that
monitors the hardware was getting very very confused.
Doug McNaught
><MAR...@angela.ctrl-c.liu.se (EMACS _FTA159)> spake thusly:
>>In article <4e9m15$r...@news1.halcyon.com> d...@chinook.halcyon.com (Debbie Schwartz) writes:
>>)<ke...@parc.xerox.com> spake thusly:
>>)>"BLORNFRAZZLE!" I yelled.
>>)I nominate this for the G-rated version of the asr battle cry.
>>Which of course made me associate to group-privilegies...
>
>I want y'all to know I actually used "Blornfrazzle" today -
>when I discovered today that someone who should know better removed
>an external scsi tape drive from one of our lab SGI Onyxs
>- without bothering to power the machine off. The daemon that
>monitors the hardware was getting very very confused.
That often happens without hardware being removed.
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