The Wednesday Code v3.0
Beverley R. White
---t h e w e d n e s d a y c o d e---v.3point0---
original code by bev white; revisions by b/W and david damerell
Sections have been scrapped, added and reworked. How many years has it
been since the last revision? You should probably redo your code if you've
already got it; for those who couldn't make sense of the old version,
this should work a bit better.
Feedback to wedn...@tezcat.com.
It works like the Geek Code, but it's shorter. The purpose is to figure out
who knows Wednesday how, and serves as a ceremonial means of introducing
oneself to alt.fan.wednesday.
A (Awareness)
This section is roughly akin to the Geek Trade section of the Geek Code,
and explains how you became aware of Wednesday. Append the code to the A,
e.g. AIRL.
AC - alt.config
AD- alt.discordia
AFW - brain.newsgroups: alt.fan.*wednesday, alt.society.fruitopia
AM* - the alt.magick.* hierarchy
ARK - alt.religion.kibology
ASAR - alt.sexual.abuse.recovery/alt.abuse.transcendence
ASB - alt.sex.bondage
ASGX - alt.society.generation-x and/or related fora
ASN - alt.society.neutopia
BOFH - scary devil monastery/THTMNBN
CHI - chi.* local newsgroups
CON - SF/F convention
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
IRL - the big blue room/in the real world
MCS - mcs.* local newsgroups
MU* - Multi-user interactive environments
NET - USENET 2
RMC - rec.music.christian
TEL - the telephone
TEZ - tezcat.* local newsgroups
WWW - World Wide Web
s p (wednesday spacing)
s p # (licencenumber) - if you have a licence
!sp - if you don't
* U (USENET)
You upgrade one level if you post from tezcat.com, cmu.edu/dementia.org,
or lorien.org -and/or- you subscribe to alt.fan.wednesday. You downgrade
one level if you happen, by cruel happenstance, to be Lee Bumgarner.
Indicate up/downgrade with parentheses; U* does not need to upgrade.
U++++ I'm on topic for alt.fan.wednesday. What more do you want?!
U+++ I grep my news spool just to read her articles, or I autoselect
globally for her.
U++ I autoselect for her on some of the groups which I read.
U+ Well, I read USENET 2...
U Everywhere I go, I see her name.
U- Discord, right?
U-- Ack. I killfile the egocentric little wench.
U--- I KNOW SHE'S REALLY LEADER KIBO! Not that I *like* the idea.
U---- I am off-topic for alt.fan.wednesday.
U* We post jointly, or have in the past.
!U Christina Ricci's on AOL?
* W (World Wide Web)
Prefix ^ if Wednesday has done contract work for you in the past.
W++++ She linked me to her web page! My life is complete!
W+++ I check her pages regularly, have reread the material often, archive
portions of it for personal use, and link to her pages from mine.
W++ I go look when she says she's changed it.
W+ I've looked once or twice. It's pretty cool.
W I could only eee it in Lynx, so I didn't get the full impact.
W- Seen it. Whatever.
W-- Self-serving, too image-heavy.
W--- She's a hack.
W---- Ick. She linked me to her web page. I have cooties.
W* We maintain joint pages of some form or another.
!W The web is evil. I don't use a browser.
* M (Meeting Wednesday)
Prefix > if any of the statements would apply more directly to you if she
lived closer and/or came by more.
M++++ I see Wednesday on a fairly regular basis, and am familiar enough
with her diet that I can predict her restaurant orders.
M+++ I hang out with Wednesday when we're in the same city, she may have
crashed at my place or I at hers, and I wish that I saw her more often.
M++ I have done coffee with Wednesday at some point.
M+ I've met Wednesday at a net.related gathering or USENIX conference.
M I've never met Wednesday.
M- I just missed meeting her; our signals crossed.
M-- I really have no interest in meeting Wednesday.
M--- I don't even want to know what she looks like, let alone meet her.
M* Come on, I live/d with Wednesday.
!M You can't meet cartoon characters.
* C (Computers)
C++++ Wednesday has, or has had, an account on my system (or vice versa).
C+++ Wednesday frequently checks mail/news from my system (or vice versa).
C++ Wednesday has telnetted to her account or dialed into her ISP from
my system at least once, or vice versa.
C+ Wednesday has used my computer, or vice versa.
C Wednesday knows that I have a computer.
C- I think I gave her systems advice once.
C-- Wednesday doesn't know I have a computer.
C--- I don't have a computer or an account that she could use.
C---- I faked downtime so that she would get off my computer.
C* I have provided equipment to Wednesday in the past.
!C I am Karl Denninger. I wouldn't want her on my system if she paid
business rates.
* D (Dating)
OPTIONAL. Wednesday notes that she prefers to have discreet relationships.
(Sort of.) net.involvements do qualify. Parenthesize former involvements
if you do not qualify under "idiot ex" status. (e.g. D(+++))
D++++ I am pleasantly involved in a relationship with Wednesday.
D+++ We have or have had a friendship with sexual/BDSM overtones.
D++ We've gone out and/or scened once or twice.
D+ It's never really come up, but I wouldn't be opposed to it.
D Shaddup. We're just friends.
D- I'm taken/unavailable/uninterested.
D-- Ah, she's celibate anyways. (Isn't she?)
D--- Oh, how gross. Not my type at ALL.
D---- I think it would be biologically impossible.
D* It's really none of your business what kind of relationship I have
have had, or would like to have with Wednesday.
!D I'm one of her idiot ex-boyfriends.
* CD (Music)
CD++++ We have amazingly similar taste in music, and could quite easily
share the same CD collection with very little clash.
CD+++ One of us is often able to convince the other to listen to something;
the other usually gets hooked.
CD++ We can usually agree on something in common to listen to, but it's more
often the case that she likes my stuff more than I like hers.
CD+ I think I got her to listen to _____ at least once...
CD I'm sure that we could agree on something if we talked about it.
CD- Icky. She likes that smarmy Christian/lesbian/devil stuff.
CD-- No one listens to THAT anymore.
CD--- What the --? WHO?!
CD* We are Of The Brain. Duh.
!CD Music never comes up between us.
* N (The Legal Name)
Prefix ^ if it depends on who she is at the time.
N++++ She prefers that I call her Beverley.
N+++ She told me to call her whatever I feel most comfortable with.
(suffix: +++w - Wednesday +++b - Beverley as you prefer)
N++ I have to look at her tits to call her Beverley.
N+ I can't call her that. I don't like the implications.
N I don't think that's really her name.
N- I don't think anyone has that ridiculous of a name.
N-- Bethany?
N--- Something Franquemont...
N---- It's NOT Wednesday?!
N* I could call her ANYTHING and she'd answer to it eventually.
N** I never knew her as Wednesday, so it's not really an issue for me.
!N "Wednesday" isn't a REAL name. You'd think some people would KNOW her
name isn't Wednesday. That's how names WORK.
* F (Fud)
F++++ I know her diet inside out and upside down. Where applicable, she will
eat my cooking. We can usually agree on a place to eat.
F+++ She likes Korean food, garlic, and beef...
F++ She's a carnivore.
F+ She eats.
F She eats?
F- Virtual creatures don't eat. And I know she's not real.
F* I've *bought* her food.
!F It's never come up.
* Boo (Booze)
Boo++++ Cider, mead, Corona, sloe gin fizzes, amaretto dishes, wine and whisky.
Boo+++ Cider, sloe gin fizzes, wine and whisky.
Boo++ Cider, wine and whisky.
Boo+ Cider and wine.
Boo Cider.
Boo- That Okanagen stuff.
Boo-- Beer?
Boo--- Girlie drinks?
Boo* I helped to hook her on one of the Boo++++ drinks. Ha.
!Boo Real Christians don't drink.
* I (IRC)
I++++ I can name her favourite servers, channels, and regular nicks. I can
typically find her without a /whois.
I+++ She hangs out on the same channels I do, and she talks to me regularly.
I++ If I /msg her, she'll almost certainly respond.
I+ I know she has a process running but can't always get her attention.
I I might have seen her around.
I- I didn't know she IRCd.
I-- Oh, shit. I'd better switch to MUDs.
I--- I thought she was a bot!
I* She idles on my system/server.
!I These are chat rooms, right?
* E (Email)
E++++ She answers my email as soon as she gets it, for the most part.
E+++ She answers my mail within a day or two, but I understand that she
has a large backlog and expect a slow return.
E++ Wednesday tries to answer my mail, but she doens't seem to get it all.
E+ I've heard back from Wednesday, but it takes a good long while.
E I've gotten mail from her once, I think.
E- I've sent her mail. She hasn't replied.
E-- Typically, I have to use bloodhounds to find replies from her.
E--- When I send her mail, she bitches to my postmaster.
E* She saves almost everything I send her...
!E We've never corresponded.
* Cr (Crises)
Cr++++ I have seen her through at least one life/health-threatening
crisis in person.
Cr+++ I have seen her through at least one life/health-threatening
crisis over net or phone.
Cr++ I have offered my support to Wednesday in a crisis, but she's
never had to take me up on it.
Cr+ I am sympathetic to her emotional problems.
Cr Rough life, I guess. Poor thing.
Cr- My mommy hit me harder.
Cr-- I'm looking *forward* to hitting *my* kids, aren't YOU?
Cr--- Whiner.
Cr* I have had the exact same crisis as Wednesday at overlapping times.
!Cr What's wrong??
* R (Religion)
R++++ Wednesday's faith is a synthesis of Christian, pagan, chaotic, Western
esoteric/Thelemic, and generally eclectic lore and ritual.
R+++ Wednesday is one of those Christopagan things.
R++ Wednesday's a pagan who read the Bible.
R+ I don't think that she has a real faith per se.
R I am unaware of Wednesday's religious orientation.
R- Real Christians wouldn't act like her.
R-- Real Pagans wouldn't act like her.
R--- TRAITOR TO THE ONE TRUE FAITH OF THE [FOO!]
R* Giving it a name wouldn't do it justice.
R** Not only R*, but I think we're the same religion.
!R Isn't she Buddhist?
R^ I keep TELLING her to be an atheist, but she doesn't LISTEN...
* Mlk (Malkavian)
Mlk++++ Who cares what psychiatrists write on the walls?
Mlk+++ Get out of that mind-meld! That's MINE!
Mlk++ Hail Eris?
Mlk+ Got Malk?
Mlk They weren't in the series.
Mlk- Amusing, but I'm a Toreador.
Mlk-- I don't get it.
Mlk--- I don't play mopy dark vampire games to have FUN. I play them to
seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade.
Mlk* alt.fan.wednesday is best read over the Malkavian Madness Network.
* An (Anime)
Upgrade one level if Ranma changing sex gets you wet. Upgrade one
level if you watched Overfiend and it didn't put you off the genre as
a whole. Downgrade 2 levels if you _liked_ Overfiend. Downgrade one
level if you prefer dubbed to subbed.
Prefix ^ if you have watched with Wednesday. Prefix > if she got you
hooked on something; prefix < if you got her hooked on something.
An+++++ You might upgrade this far.
An++++ I am Rumiko Takahashi. Worship me.
An+++ They make films in the West, too?
An++ What do you mean, 8 hour Sailormoon sessions are excessive?
An+ Ranma's really funny.
An It's entertaining - so are lots of things.
An- Big eyes get on my nerves.
An-- Cartoons are for children.
An--- It's Satanic Tentacle Pr0n!
An----
An----- Only reachable if you downgrade for some reason.
An------
An* Get me wet and I change sex.
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wedn...@tezcat.com -- bev white -- u2-dysfunction-groupgrrl
If we're going to be screwed, let's be screwed WELL. -- Liana
Richard Crew
Beverley R. White <wedn...@huitzilo.tezcat.com> wrote:
: CD- Icky. She likes that smarmy Christian/lesbian/devil stuff.
Christian-lesbian-devil music?? Let's hear some!!
.WAV! .WAV!
or is it
.AU! .AU! ?
--Rich
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Tom E Arnold
Beverley R. White wrote:
> s p (wednesday spacing)
>
> s p # (licencenumber) - if you have a licence
> !sp - if you don't
>
I suppose I'll figure this out when I see codes (I don't recall anyone
using them up to now) but what license are we speaking of?
>
> You upgrade one level if you post from tezcat.com
I don't have dialup there _anymore_ but Jen, sweetheart that she is,
still lets me get mail there. How do we code this?
TEA/
Beverley R. White
In article <63b40h$o...@nntp02.primenet.com>,
Jason and Heather <stei...@primenet.com> wrote:
>ARMC !sp U+++(+) W++ M C D* CD++ N* F+++ Boo+++ I++ E+++ --Cr++ R*^ Mlk- An
^^^ WWW?
> [1] I will teach her how to be a vodka snob for sure. What remains
> to be seen is whether or not I'll be able to successfully
> introduce her to the joys of the Booker's and Coors boilermaker.
*blink* Beer, right? beer gives me stomachache, which is part of why I started
drinking cider...
Jason and Heather
> Jason and Heather <stei...@primenet.com> wrote:
> >ARMC !sp U+++(+) W++ M C D* CD++ N* F+++ Boo+++ I++ E+++ --Cr++ R*^ Mlk- An
> ^^^ WWW?
Nope, that was the second.
> > [1] I will teach her how to be a vodka snob for sure. What remains
> > to be seen is whether or not I'll be able to successfully
> > introduce her to the joys of the Booker's and Coors boilermaker.
>
> *blink* Beer, right? beer gives me stomachache,
I knew that. But you list Corona. Oh, but of course! What was I
thinking? That's not beer!
> which is part of why I started drinking cider...
Well, cider and Booker's wouldn't be bad either. Actually, one of
these days I'm going to fix myself a "Stewed Quaker". A boiled apple
in a mug of heated hard cider.
jason
--
"The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote
like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without
restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody."
BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/
David Damerell
>>AAFW s p #pi<largestprime>.2106 U* W++++ [1] >M++++ C++ D* CD++ N* F*
>>Boo* [2] I+++ E* Cr* R^ Mlk-- ^>An+++ [3]
>Your web page shows F*$ -- is that intentional, and, if so, what does it mean?
Ooops.
>>Um, what happened to the Toys section to replace Wh?
>I suddenly got very embarrased while trying to compose it.
Aw, go on, you know you want to...
>>[3] And <?
>Are you hooked on Sailor Moon yet?
Have I got the sense of < and > reversed? I means 'are you hooked on
Crisis yet'?
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David/Kirsty 'Gotterdammerung' Damerell. dame...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
CUWoCS President. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/ Hail Eris!
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