Proper pronounciation of 'Kibo'
Doug Siebert
self-described "aging hacker", said the pronounciation I was using, with a
long 'e' sound, was incorrect, and it should be pronounced with a long 'i'
sound, since 'Kibo' was/is the name for a line of porta-potties. Which
pronounciation is correct? And if Mr Parry happens to read this article
(if he doesn't he needs to bitch at the authors of agrep :-) ) maybe he
could comment on whether his nickname has anything to do with Kibo the
porta-potty manufacturer...
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Jesper Lauridsen
>Just now when I was explaining 'Kibo' to a couple friends of mine, one, a
>self-described "aging hacker", said the pronounciation I was using, with a
>long 'e' sound, was incorrect, and it should be pronounced with a long 'i'
>sound, since 'Kibo' was/is the name for a line of porta-potties. Which
>pronounciation is correct? And if Mr Parry happens to read this article
>(if he doesn't he needs to bitch at the authors of agrep :-) ) maybe he
>could comment on whether his nickname has anything to do with Kibo the
>porta-potty manufacturer...
I have seen Kibo sewing store in the outskirts of this town, so I assume
it's proper to pronounce it in Danish.
On a related note: I can get my Amiga to pronounce my name right if I call
myself Yespah.
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Michael T Pins
>dsie...@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) writes:
->Just now when I was explaining 'Kibo' to a couple friends of mine, one, a
->self-described "aging hacker", said the pronounciation I was using, with a
->long 'e' sound, was incorrect, and it should be pronounced with a long 'i'
->sound, since 'Kibo' was/is the name for a line of porta-potties. Which
->pronounciation is correct? And if Mr Parry happens to read this article
->(if he doesn't he needs to bitch at the authors of agrep :-) ) maybe he
->could comment on whether his nickname has anything to do with Kibo the
->porta-potty manufacturer...
>I have seen Kibo sewing store in the outskirts of this town, so I assume
>it's proper to pronounce it in Danish.
But how do the Danish pronounce it???
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James Kibo Parry
>Just now when I was explaining 'Kibo' to a couple friends of mine, one, a
>self-described "aging hacker", said the pronounciation I was using, with a
>long 'e' sound, was incorrect, and it should be pronounced with a long 'i'
>sound, since 'Kibo' was/is the name for a line of porta-potties. Which
>pronounciation is correct? And if Mr Parry happens to read this article
>(if he doesn't he needs to bitch at the authors of agrep :-) ) maybe he
>could comment on whether his nickname has anything to do with Kibo the
>porta-potty manufacturer...
one. There are no porta-potties named "Kibo". There's a "y" in them.
two. You're allowed to pronounce it however you want, BUT PLEASE TELL
YOUR FRIEND I AM NOT NAMED AFTER A TOILET, ok? (I'm also not
named after the second-highest peak of Kilimanjaro, I'm not
an acronym, I'm not named after a CMU dorm, and I'm not the
middle of a pair of skiboots.)
three. I pronounce it the way he does, but most people say it one of
the other two ways.
This is all explained in the alt.religion.kibology FAQ, Fourth Edition.
-- K.
James Kibo Parry
>
>I have seen Kibo sewing store in the outskirts of this town, so I assume
>it's proper to pronounce it in Danish.
Note that we're having a sale on Japanese sewing clamps this week, you
know, the kind with the spring-loaded adjustable tension jaws with the
nasty teeth that really dig into your skin.
>On a related note: I can get my Amiga to pronounce my name right if I call
>myself Yespah.
I usually have to spell it "Kaibo" for speech synthesizers, though some
text-to-speech algorithms pronounce that "Kaybo". There's no trusting
the silly things.
Just be glad your name isn't "Bacon".
-- K.
Matt Welsh
>
>Just be glad your name isn't "Bacon".
> -- K.
>
Oh, molluscs! I thought you said bacon.
mdw
stealing quotes shamelessly
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Charles Lasner
>self-described "aging hacker", said the pronounciation I was using, with a
>long 'e' sound, was incorrect, and it should be pronounced with a long 'i'
>sound, since 'Kibo' was/is the name for a line of porta-potties. Which
>pronounciation is correct? And if Mr Parry happens to read this article
>(if he doesn't he needs to bitch at the authors of agrep :-) ) maybe he
>could comment on whether his nickname has anything to do with Kibo the
>porta-potty manufacturer...
cj "you say Kee-bo, and I say KII-bo" l
Terry Chan
+In article <1992Dec5.0...@icaen.uiowa.edu> dsie...@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) writes:
+>Just now when I was explaining 'Kibo' to a couple friends of mine, one, a
+>self-described "aging hacker", said the pronounciation I was using, with a
+>long 'e' sound, was incorrect, and it should be pronounced with a long 'i'
+>sound, since 'Kibo' was/is the name for a line of porta-potties. Which
+>pronounciation is correct? And if Mr Parry happens to read this article
+>(if he doesn't he needs to bitch at the authors of agrep :-) ) maybe he
+>could comment on whether his nickname has anything to do with Kibo the
+>porta-potty manufacturer...
+
+cj "you say Kee-bo, and I say KII-bo" l
Hey, STella told me it was "KII-bo," as far as I'm concerned, THAT'S IT.
Terry "How DO you explain 'Kibo' to people?" Chan
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Tom Wilbur
Well, according to what I was always told (AFU motto of the [time
unit]), port-a-potties were not called Kibos, they were called KYBOs,
an acronym for:
K eep
Y our
B owels
O pen
Reminds me of the story (and, of course, possible UL) when I was at
the 1985 BSA National Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill, VA., and a friendly
little hurricane stopped by to pay its regards. Massive winds ripped
through the campsites, blowing over tents and, yes, port-a-potties.
Supposedly, one occupied KYBO even blew over *door-down*.
Blech!
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Thomas Zych
>Well, according to what I was always told (AFU motto of the [time
>unit]), port-a-potties were not called Kibos, they were called KYBOs,
>an acronym for:
> K eep
> Y our
> B owels
> O pen
>Reminds me of the story (and, of course, possible UL) when I was at
>the 1985 BSA National Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill, VA., and a friendly
>little hurricane stopped by to pay its regards. Massive winds ripped
>through the campsites, blowing over tents and, yes, port-a-potties.
>Supposedly, one occupied KYBO even blew over *door-down*.
>Blech!
>-- Tom
Hey, don't exaggerate now. I was at the '85 Jamboree as well. Bill wasn't a
hurricane at all, just a friendly little tropical storm. Ripped some grommets
out of our tents before we got them struck, and bent a few poles, but the only
occupied port-a-potty that ended up door-down was the one that we intentionally
turned over. 8) (At least as far as _I_ know.)
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Jesse Mundis
I knew him (no. not biblically) back at RPI. Unless its changed, or my
brain has taken too many alpha particle hits, the first syllable sounds
like "eye" and the second like "bow." (K-EYE-bow)
Jesse "Too bad I didn't save any of those original Kibology flyers he was
always leaving around the computer labs" Mundis
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Sergej Roytman
In article <8f6k03M...@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, je...@uts.amdahl.com (Jesse Mundis) writes:
|[Question about phonetic pronunciation of "Kibo"]
|
|I knew him (no. not biblically) back at RPI.
OK, so who IS Kibo?
(Sorry, if it's something that any self-respecting 'netter should know
my two years' experience shows.)
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Say no to four-line .sigs.
Ad absurdum per aspera
No, you're thinking of the Kiai Bow, the Japanese answer to the Flaming
Chi Sword -- it's sort of a class of martial-arts weapons that function
far better than those based strictly on Western physics, but do not work
at all unless you can extend sufficient internal energy into them.
Joe "Followup to alt.martial-arts.whaddya-mean-regular-in-the-decaf-pot?" Chew
Dan Wright
: I knew him (no. not biblically) back at RPI. Unless its changed, or my
: brain has taken too many alpha particle hits, the first syllable sounds
: like "eye" and the second like "bow." (K-EYE-bow)
I'm astonished. I've never thought to pronounce it with anything other
than a short "i". Maybe the "i" would look long if a Quailesque silent "e"
was added: "Kiboe".
Kibos and Bits
Kibos and Bits
I'm gonna get some
Kibos and Bits
-- Dan Wright
Charles Lasner
>
>Terry "How DO you explain 'Kibo' to people?" Chan
What are people?
cjl
Matt Welsh
You have much to learn, O budding hacker.
mdw
Terry Chan
+|[Question about phonetic pronunciation of "Kibo"]
+|
+|I knew him (no. not biblically) back at RPI.
+
ft...@litotes.engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman) writes:
+OK, so who IS Kibo?
+
+(Sorry, if it's something that any self-respecting 'netter should know
+my two years' experience shows.)
Two years on the net and you don't know who Kibo is? Check the
FAK list on alt.religion.kibology.
Terry "Your's for a better USElessNET" Chan
James Kibo Parry
>[Question about phonetic pronunciation of "Kibo"]
>
>I knew him (no. not biblically) back at RPI. Unless its changed, or my
>brain has taken too many alpha particle hits, the first syllable sounds
>like "eye" and the second like "bow." (K-EYE-bow)
Not just alpha particles. Gamma from the radioactive RPI JEC bricks, too.
That's why the CII's tiles cracked... and the library's sinking... and
the JEC's bending... and West Hall is sliding down the hill... and why
student protestors cut one of its cables... and why the computer center
is a desanctified church. It even ensured that the DAKA fish I ate
every Friday was square at lunch, but triangular at dinner.
>Jesse "Too bad I didn't save any of those original Kibology flyers he was
>always leaving around the computer labs" Mundis
The latest edition of "Official Kibo Collectibles Guide" says the blue
ones are worth $50 to $150 each, depending on condition, with the
exception of the autographed ones, which are priceless.
-- K.
James Kibo Parry
>Jesse Mundis (je...@uts.amdahl.com) wrote:
>: I knew him (no. not biblically) back at RPI. Unless its changed, or my
>: brain has taken too many alpha particle hits, the first syllable sounds
>: like "eye" and the second like "bow." (K-EYE-bow)
>
>I'm astonished. I've never thought to pronounce it with anything other
>than a short "i". Maybe the "i" would look long if a Quailesque silent "e"
>was added: "Kiboe".
No, then the Germans would say it with an umlaut. (And the wrong "i",
e.g. as in "Kino".)
>Kibos and Bits
>Kibos and Bits
>I'm gonna get some
>Kibos and Bits
>
> -- Dan Wright
You know, that's the first time I heard that...
TODAY.
-- K.
James Kibo Parry
I filled my decaf pot with concentrated caffeine solution. Then I took
it to Taco Hell and left it there under the "You Need A Fajita!" poster
showing Big Brother.
Their new special is the impossible-to-rhyme Armadillo Tortilla Flotilla.
-- K.
Charles Lasner
>In article <1992Dec8.0...@news.columbia.edu> las...@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>In article <27...@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWC...@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>>>
>>>Terry "How DO you explain 'Kibo' to people?" Chan
>>
>>What are people?
>>
>>cjl
>
>You have much to learn, O budding hacker.
>
>mdw
You mean that if I progress as a hacker for another 22 years, I will eventually
hack up people?
cjl
Dik T. Winter
> OK, so who IS Kibo?
>
> (Sorry, if it's something that any self-respecting 'netter should know
> my two years' experience shows.)
>
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home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: d...@cwi.nl
James Kibo Parry
>In article <C3P=M#C...@engin.umich.edu> ft...@litotes.engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman) writes:
> > OK, so who IS Kibo?
> >
Huh? Where are you getting your information from?
You know, it's amazing how much discussion of me there's been in
alt.folklore.computers and alt.folklore.urban without someone simply
suggesting "Why don't we ASK Kibo how he says it, since he's on the net
and he's a bunch of groups named after him?" But noooooo. It's enough
to make one lose his faith in Terryness.
-- K.
NOT named "John"
Dan Wright
:
: You know, it's amazing how much discussion of me there's been in
: alt.folklore.computers and alt.folklore.urban without someone simply
: suggesting "Why don't we ASK Kibo how he says it, since he's on the net
: and he's a bunch of groups named after him?" But noooooo. It's enough
: to make one lose his faith in Terryness.
Speaking as one man with but two pennies in his pocket: I assumed it would
be awkward, and perhaps futile, to pester the high and mighty with trivial
questions, considering the possibility of almighty <ZOTs> or what have you.
Oh awesome Kibo, who lifts heavy stones on God's behalf, who hears each
tree fall in each forest, who remembers the first chicken hatching from an
egg, please answer this humble question:
How do you say Kibo?
-- Dan Wright
P.S. The first scan I got:
"...since he's on the net and he's a bunch of grapes ..."
A bunch of grapes? Oh, *groups*, and the second "he's"
is short for "he has". My mistake.
Doug Siebert
But that would be silly. My whole point for posting the original article
asking about the pronounciation of your name was not because it was some
question that was really bugging me, but to demonstrate to my friends how
you appear out of nowhere the instant your name is mentioned in any group.
The thing I was explaining was the story you posted some months ago about
using agrep to grep through the news spool tree every few days, and catch
references to yourself and reply to them. What better demonstration? :-)
James Kibo Parry
>-- K. NOT named "John" wrote:
>: You know, it's amazing how much discussion of me there's been in
>: alt.folklore.computers and alt.folklore.urban without someone simply
>: suggesting "Why don't we ASK Kibo how he says it, since he's on the net
>: and he's a bunch of groups named after him?" But noooooo. It's enough
>: to make one lose his faith in Terryness.
>
>Speaking as one man with but two pennies in his pocket: I assumed it would
>be awkward, and perhaps futile, to pester the high and mighty with trivial
>questions, considering the possibility of almighty <ZOTs> or what have you.
I don't <ZOT> people, not even little ants that crawl around (though I
do squish the ants with paper towels, if I catch them in my room.)
I don't even believe in *plonk*ing people, especially since I consider
t.b an instrument of the devil. I'M more conversant with the net's
inside jokes than YOU!
>Oh awesome Kibo, who lifts heavy stones on God's behalf, who hears each
>tree fall in each forest,
And the bears in the woods too.
> who remembers the first chicken hatching from an
>egg, please answer this humble question:
>
>How do you say Kibo?
With my mouth. WOMP WOMP.
Very carefully. WOMP WOMP.
R-o-l-a-i-... oh, heck with it, I'll just answer the question.
The three pronunciations (for the "i") I hear are (most common) as in "see",
(common) as in "bit", (rare) as in "eye".
I say the rare one. I don't know why; I just always have.
The best thing about it is that it prevents people from thinking of that
joke about 'and bits and bits'.
>P.S. The first scan I got:
> "...since he's on the net and he's a bunch of grapes ..."
> A bunch of grapes? Oh, *groups*, and the second "he's"
> is short for "he has". My mistake.
Actually, I think there was originally planned to be a 'got' after
'he's', but wisely my subconscious didn't notice its absence, for it
makes the sentence all the more high-falutin'.
And I *am* a bunch of grapes!
-- K.
Charles Lasner
>ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
>
>>In article <81...@charon.cwi.nl> d...@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>>>In article <C3P=M#C...@engin.umich.edu> ft...@litotes.engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman) writes:
>>> > OK, so who IS Kibo?
K-eye-bo (not K-ih-bo) was remarking about how he had not heard reference to
Kibos and bits
before: today!
Well, what about
Kybos and bytes?
cjl
Sam Wilson
& alt.folklore.computers and alt.folklore.urban without someone simply
& suggesting "Why don't we ASK Kibo how he says it, since he's on the net
& and he's a bunch of groups named after him?" But noooooo. It's enough
& to make one lose his faith in Terryness.
I'm game, how DO you pronounce "Kibo", Kibo?
Sam
Derek Tearne
>
>
>>You know, it's amazing how much discussion of me there's been in
>>alt.folklore.computers and alt.folklore.urban without someone simply
>>suggesting "Why don't we ASK Kibo how he says it, since he's on the net
>>and he's a bunch of groups named after him?" But noooooo. It's enough
>>to make one lose his faith in Terryness.
>
>
>But that would be silly. My whole point for posting the original article
>asking about the pronounciation of your name was not because it was some
>question that was really bugging me, but to demonstrate to my friends how
>you appear out of nowhere the instant your name is mentioned in any group.
U. Kibo greps through every group to find a mention of his name.
Tb. Kibo also greps for Xvob.
>The thing I was explaining was the story you posted some months ago about
>using agrep to grep through the news spool tree every few days, and catch
>references to yourself and reply to them. What better demonstration? :-)
Not a very good demonstration seeing as he (the name which can't be spoken)
actually _reads_ alt.folklore.computers and alt.folklore.urban.
A good test would be to post using the phrase "Eskibo's count 1,2 many"
in the a group like
soc.culture.really.obscure.ex-soviet.independant.state.d
Now _that_ would be a worthy test.
Derek "I bet he has fun with the phone book" Tearne
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James Kibo Parry
>
>U. Kibo greps through every group to find a mention of his name.
True. But only once every ten days or so.
>Tb. Kibo also greps for Xvob.
Not usually. I'm really only interested in people talking about me. If
they want to be clever and talk about "K_bo" [which agrep *can* match to
"Kibo"] they're just trying to see if I will find it or not. I really
don't have time; I'm primarily looking for mentions of my name in
actual discussion, not meta-discussion, and of course the search script
also finds all the followups to my articles, etc., so that I'm sure I
don't miss those.
Occasionally I'll also search for my real name and Xvob. But not often
enough to catch all occurrences. Basically, if you want to talk about
me behind my back, just do it in a SLIGHTLY MORE CLEVER WAY than that.
I'll likely never see it. I'm not interested in catching all those.
But really, you wouldn't believe how many people do things like post
articles which say "I bet K*bo won't see this!" to alt.religion.KIBOlogy.
>>The thing I was explaining was the story you posted some months ago about
>>using agrep to grep through the news spool tree every few days, and catch
>>references to yourself and reply to them. What better demonstration? :-)
>
>Not a very good demonstration seeing as he (the name which can't be spoken)
>actually _reads_ alt.folklore.computers and alt.folklore.urban.
Actually, I almost never do. Just the articles that mention my name.
>A good test would be to post using the phrase "Eskibo's count 1,2 many"
>in the a group like
>soc.culture.really.obscure.ex-soviet.independant.state.d
>Now _that_ would be a worthy test.
But I'd just ignore that, the way I do when the grep script finds many
"skiboots for sale", "Skibo hall", "kibosh", "Tkibosk", "kibou to
zetsubou no shokutaku", etc., matches.
Again, folks, rather than trying to guess what I do on the net, why not
just ask? I even send out copies of the two-line program to people who
want to run it. [very fast machine recommended.]
-- K.
Jim Kasprzak
|> And I *am* a bunch of grapes!
Kibo-Man! Kibo-Man!
Does whatever a Kibo can!
Rot-13's, greps the Net,
There's no type he can't set.
Hey there, there goes the Kibo-Man.
Can he boze? Quite a lot!
He's got more slack than Spot.
Does he post? Yes sirree:
All about Kibology.
Look out, here comes the Kibo-Man.
All across the Net, with no fear of a flame,
He's a kibological threat; if you dare, type his name!
Kibo-Man, Kibo-Man,
Postbozotical Kibo-Man!
To him, Usenet is one big tirade,
Wherever there's a cascade,
You'll find the Kibo-Man!
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John Fleming
Terry Chan
+Kibo, what do you do on the net? Also, what do you do in the real world?
What's the difference?
Terry "Terribo" Chan
James Kibo Parry
>Kibo, what do you do on the net? Also, what do you do in the real world?
Um...
I dunno.
-- K.
The Heckler
>In article <Bz16F...@world.std.com>, ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
]|] And I *am* a bunch of grapes!
]
]Kibo-Man! Kibo-Man!
]Does whatever a Kibo can!
]Rot-13's, greps the Net,
]There's no type he can't set.
]Hey there, there goes the Kibo-Man.
]
]Can he boze? Quite a lot!
]He's got more slack than Spot.
]Does he post? Yes sirree:
]All about Kibology.
]Look out, here comes the Kibo-Man.
]
]All across the Net, with no fear of a flame,
]He's a kibological threat; if you dare, type his name!
]
]Kibo-Man, Kibo-Man,
]Postbozotical Kibo-Man!
]To him, Usenet is one big tirade,
]Wherever there's a cascade,
]You'll find the Kibo-Man!
I know the correct tune to sing this to.
Does this mean I have the Kibo-nature?
the heckler (Is "Cthibo" taken?)
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>
> +Kibo, what do you do on the net? Also, what do you do in the real world?
>
>What's the difference?
No one ever asks you to get a net.
cj "non-bo" l
Charles Lasner
>
> the heckler (Is "Cthibo" taken?)
Why, is Kibo Kosher? (Can you make Kibo Brei?) (Does it contain Vitamin B2 aka
Kiboflavin?)
obKosherUL: the O in KIBO has a U inside of it. (And you can guess what the
K means.)
CJ "What bo is the Cthibo (or the Kibo) connected to" l
Nicholas C. Weaver
Real cruel thing to do. Put the word "Kibo" into your
.sig. :)
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It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying nothing.
Mr J L Saunders
%In article <27...@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWC...@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
%>std_f...@hg.uleth.ca writes:
%>
%> +Kibo, what do you do on the net? Also, what do you do in the real world?
%>
%>What's the difference?
%
%No one ever asks you to get a net.
Has anyone ever asked you to get a real world, then?
Jason
--
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email: ma...@csv.warwick.ac.uk
snail: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
have clue, will travel
pech...@sal-sun24.usc.edu (The Heckler) writes:
>In article <#6h2...@rpi.edu> kas...@rpi.edu writes:
>>In article <Bz16F...@world.std.com>, ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
>>writes:
>> And I *am* a bunch of grapes!
>[Kibo-Man song mercifully deleted]
>I know the correct tune to sing this to.
>Does this mean I have the Kibo-nature?
Actually, it means that you'll be one of the first week's guests on
David Letterman's new show (once he moves over to CBS).
Musical guest slot in the last 10 minutes, preceded by interviews with Tom
Snyder, Bruce Becker and the world's fastest bank teller.
---jeff "damn close guess, though" c., ncsu.
--
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It's time to see the world / It's time to kiss the girl
It's time to cross the wild meridian
Grab your bag and take a chance / Time to learn a Cajun dance
Kid, you're gonna see the morning sun...
Bob Billson
[..stuff gone...]
>Reminds me of the story (and, of course, possible UL) when I was at
>the 1985 BSA National Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill, VA., and a friendly
>little hurricane stopped by to pay its regards. Massive winds ripped
>through the campsites, blowing over tents and, yes, port-a-potties.
>Supposedly, one occupied KYBO even blew over *door-down*.
>
>Blech!
On a slightly related note, a ham friend of mine was at a hamfest once with
his HT (handie-talkie for non-hams) clipped on his belt. He entered the
KYBO/Kibo just as he started to sit down his HT came off his belt and in it
went. Not wanting to leave his $300 HT in there he fished it out (blech!),
wiped it off with some toilet paper and left to find some fresh water. He
figured the HT was already ruined so rinsing it off under water certainly
wouldn't do any more harm. Surprisingly, the HT worked just fine after he
cleaned and dried it off. To this day it has the slight odor of disinfectant
from its dip, but no other smell. Nor has it ever given him any trouble.
Guess it knows what will happen to it if it starts malfunctioning. :-)
--
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Miguel Borges
No one ever asks you to get a real world, either.
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Charles Lasner
>In article <1992Dec15.0...@news.columbia.edu> las...@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>%In article <27...@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWC...@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>%>std_f...@hg.uleth.ca writes:
>%>
>%> +Kibo, what do you do on the net? Also, what do you do in the real world?
>%>
>%>What's the difference?
>%
>%No one ever asks you to get a net.
>
>Has anyone ever asked you to get a real world, then?
Yes, some accounting packages actually. (Used to be MCBA.)
But lately, only that subset of the Real World (tm) known as a Life.
>
>Jason
>--
> "Merry Xvob!" Jason L Saunders [ RouE ] "Merry Xvob!"
^^^^^ ^^^^
Didn't she sing with Mick Jagger on "Gimme Shelter"? (or was that the un-ROT
KIBO?)
> email: ma...@csv.warwick.ac.uk
>snail: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
>
cj "Never write any accounting programs in any language but KIBOL" l
Kevin W. Plaxco
>In article <1992Dec10.2...@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> de...@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>>A good test would be to post using the phrase "Eskibo's count 1,2 many"
>>in the a group like
>>soc.culture.really.obscure.ex-soviet.independant.state.d
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>But I'd just ignore that, the way I do when the grep script finds many
>"skiboots for sale", "Skibo hall", "kibosh", "Tkibosk", "kibou to
^^^^^^^^
I admit it, I am ashamed, but I admit it. While posting a note to
soc.culture.soviet requesting information for a trip I am planning
on taking to a really.obscure.ex-soviet.independant.state, (Kirgh-
izstan) I slipped this made up place name into it just in a fit of
piqueishness. I guess I just wanted some attention. No such place
exists. I apologize for any inconvenience my thoughtless actions
may have caused.
-Kevin "is right justification of his post penance enough?" Plaxco
James Kibo Parry
I know it doesn't exist, you silly person, because if it did I'd be
finding its name in relcom.* all the time.
Well, maybe not--in KOI8 it might be spelled differently. Like "tKIB^oSK".
>-Kevin "is right justification of his post penance enough?" Plaxco
No, because
a) justification is evil, *especially* of fixed-width fonts
b) the next-to-last line has a big gap in it
c) you didn't hang the hyphen in line 3
d) the "g"s look funny.
You are doomed to spend all eternity in Tkibosk, or worse, Tskiborsk,
which sounds more Russian.
-- K.
Tim Reincke
pronounced. :)
Anthony Edward Prattico
>What is a "pronounciation"? Pronunciation is spelled just like it is
>pronounced. :)
Oh, that's an easy one. It's the act of creating a pronoun.
-Anthony
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Robert O'Brien
How _do_ you make a pronoun derived from the proper noun "Kibo"?????
maybe { kibI, kibou, kibee, kibay } for { I, you, we, they }, but the latter
two would require that Kibo not be unique, else they, oops, kibay would
be of no use at all.
Maybe, just maybe, *all* netters
are kibo, whereas, of course there is only one Kibo.
^ ^
KibI suppose kibI could deal with that, how about kibou? And the rest of
the net, who don't read a.f.u, how could kibee explain this to kibem?
Paul Tomblin
> Real cruel thing to do. Put the word "Kibo" into your
>.sig. :)
No - a much better trick, one that Kibo himself endorsed, is to put random
'Kibites'(*) in your postings - but the hard part is finding a group that
a) Kibo doesn't read already, and b) that is laid back enough that your
Kibite isn't going to generate lots of confused mail.
(*) Kibite - a random sentence fragment mentioning Kibo for no aparrent
reason. It has to be something that if it appeared in a grep, Kibo would be
sufficiently intriqued to read the posting. For example:
again, Kibo himself has categorically denied this on many occasions. This is
--
Paul Tomblin, p...@compass.gvc.com
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
I've always wanted to know what's around the next bend
- Herman Smith (Jackrabbit) Johansen. 1875-1983
Ken Hornstein
>In article <1gjmng...@agate.berkeley.edu> nwe...@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver) writes:
>
> Real cruel thing to do. Put the word "Kibo" into your
> .sig. :)
>
>usenet.ucs.indiana.edu to kibo.ucs.indiana.edu so all of our outgoing stuff
>has to word "Kibo" in it...
Hey, I've already decided that if we get a new machine, it's going to be called
"kibo.phys.psu.edu". Maybe I'll move news to it :-)
--Ken
Charles Lasner
>You don't need to, the pronoun concept is included in the word, which
>declines
> Kibo
> Kibas
> Kibat
> Kibamus
> Kibant
> Klaatu (Kibare is *very* irregular)
>
^^^^^^
Sheesh! I thought that KIBO was Gort's love child.
cj "Gort! Klaatu borata nicto!" l
Daniel Drucker
--
Daniel Drucker N2SXX Coconut seashells whispering to me
daniel%mer...@uunet.uu.net "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
Jon Konrath
Real cruel thing to do. Put the word "Kibo" into your
.sig. :)
I wonder if I could convince local admins to rename our NNTP-server machine
usenet.ucs.indiana.edu to kibo.ucs.indiana.edu so all of our outgoing stuff
has to word "Kibo" in it...
-j
--
Jon Konrath | Jkon...@indiana.edu | one world. one sig.
Terry Monks
: Well?? Don't leave us all waiting....
:
: How _do_ you make a pronoun derived from the proper noun "Kibo"?????
declines
Kibo
Kibas
Kibat
Kibamus
Kibant
Klaatu (Kibare is *very* irregular)
Terry "De Kibamus non curat aliquis" Monks
--
Terry Monks Automata Design Inc (703) 742-9400
Paul Tomblin
I know: "Everything" and "Nothing". (Or is that "Nothing", and
"Everything")
Paul "Gibo - Garbage In, Bozocity Out" Tomblin
--
Paul Tomblin, p...@compass.gvc.com
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read"
-- Joshua Heller (hel...@husc.harvard.edu) on rec.humor.funny
Charles Lasner
>
>Paul "Gibo - Garbage In, Bozocity Out" Tomblin
Wasn't Bozo City an obscure Jan and Dean song?
cj "two girls for every boy" l
Timothy R Harrison
Kibo
Kibas
Kibat
Kibamus
Kibatis
Kibant
?
Tim
James Kibo Parry
>usenet.ucs.indiana.edu to kibo.ucs.indiana.edu so all of our outgoing stuff
>has to word "Kibo" in it...
1) There are already three or four sites (mostly little machines)
named kibo.*.*.*...
2) My script ignores things like Path: and Xref:, etc. I thought of
this early on--the Path: to every posting *I* make ends in !kibo,
and every article showing up in alt.religion.kibology generates
on Xref: for each groups it's posted to, etc.
3) Foo.
Don't tell Noah Friedman this, but I know where "foo" (as opposed to
"fubar") came from.
-- K.
MURRAY ALEXANDER W
[...snip...]
>Don't tell Noah Friedman this, but I know where "foo" (as opposed to
>"fubar") came from.
> -- K.
The first two Words, "foo" and "bar", were revealed to me through divine
intervention of the Hydro gods. Two letters in a Food Barn grocery store's
sign were burned out. Or perhaps this belongs in alt.shenanigans? Or
alt.religion? Or alt.kibo.enough.gack.gack.gack? ;-)
Regards,
Alex
--
__ __ __ __ ______ ______ _____ __ __ _____
___ ___ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Alex Murray
__ _ __ __ __ ______ ______ _______ __ _______ Comp Eng 9T3-not!
__ __ _____ __ ___ __ ___ __ __ __ __ _mur...@ecf.toronto.edu
Terry Monks
: Isn't kibo declined
:
: Kibo
: Kibas
: Kibat
: Kibamus
: Kibatis
: Kibant
: ?
:
: Tim
No.
Terry "I'm not a keyboard, but I play one in a band" Monks
Chip Salzenberg
>Isn't kibo declined
> Kibo
> Kibas
> Kibat
> Kibamus
> Kibatis
> Kibant
>?
No, it's obviously Spanish:
kibo
kibes
kibe
kibimos
kibeis
kiben
Pero todavia no hace sentido.
--
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <ch...@tct.com>, <7371...@compuserve.com>
"you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagles to my face /
and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
Matt Welsh
>In article <1992Dec19....@news.columbia.edu> las...@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec18....@adimail.uucp> t...@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
>>
>>>You don't need to, the pronoun concept is included in the word, which
>>>declines
>>> Kibo
>>> Kibas
>>> Kibat
>>> Kibamus
>>> Kibant
>>> Klaatu (Kibare is *very* irregular)
> Kibas
> Kibat
> Kibamus
> Kibatis
> Kibant
The verb form is conjugated, in Russian, as
(Ya) Kibo
(Tii) Kibesh
(On, ona, ono) Kibeyete
(Mii) Kibyem
(Vii) Bacon
(Oni) Kibyat
The second person plural is irregular.
mdw
--
Matt Welsh m...@tc.cornell.edu Cornell Theory Center
"It's a Katana, ya Midwestern Computer Geek." --Tom Payne
Andy Holyer
>In article <1h5b27...@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> harr...@cps.msu.edu (Timothy R Harrison) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec19....@news.columbia.edu> las...@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>>In article <1992Dec18....@adimail.uucp> t...@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
>>>
...
>> Kibo
...
>
>The verb form is conjugated, in Russian, as
> (Ya) Kibo
> (Tii) Kibesh
> (On, ona, ono) Kibeyete
> (Mii) Kibyem
> (Vii) Bacon
> (Oni) Kibyat
>
>The second person plural is irregular.
I presume that Kibyat' is an imperfective verb ? :-)
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JANET: an...@cogs.sussex.ac.uk |.sig quote. Normal service will
|be resumed when I find another one.
bill nelson
: > (On, ona, ono) Kibeyete
: > (Mii) Kibyem
: > (Vii) Bacon
: > (Oni) Kibyat
: >
: >The second person plural is irregular.
:
: I presume that Kibyat' is an imperfective verb ? :-)
All conjugations are irregular and imperfect - unlike Kibo, who is
somewhat regular and partially perfect.
Bill
Jeremy Daniel Buhler
> I presume that Kibyat' is an imperfective verb ? :-)
For the Russian impaired amongst us, here is a conjectural conjugation for
Kibo in Spanish:
Inf: kebir - (int.) to be, act like, or impersonate Kibo
kibo
kibes
kibe
kebimos
kebi's
kiben
<voseo pos. kebi's as well>
Note associated imperfections, eg kibio' (preterite 3rd person sing), kebi'os
(2nd person plural vos. command), kibieramos (preterite subjunctive 1st person
plural) etc.
Langugage Lab type examples:
Yo estoy kibiendo.
Ojala' que kiba pronto.
No se kibe aqui'.
!Kibamos!
BTW, it is conjectured that kibo is derived from a Greek original, hence
the use of "k" (very rare in Spanish). Attempts at modernization have
generated the alternative spelling "quebir".
BTBTW, the reflexive form "kebirse" connotes "to fool oneself into believing
that one is actually Kibo while performing the actions denoted by 'kebir'".
Ex: !Kiba'monos!"
This concludes our lesson for today. And remember:
"En tierra de ciegos...
...se chocan mucho."
--
< Jeremy Buhler * In real life: jbu...@owlnet.rice.edu >
< Rice U., Houston, TX, USA * Ceci n'est pas une .sig - zut alors! >
< All opinions expressed herein are my own and should not be in any >
< way construed to represent the views held by Jeremy Buhler >
Terry Chan
+
+All conjugations are irregular and imperfect - unlike Kibo, who is
+somewhat regular and partially perfect.
Chocolate Ex-Lax will do that for you.
Terry "Kinda gives Spot a whole new meaning don't it?" Chan
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David Wolff
> >> The verb form is conjugated, in Russian, as
> <much nuked>
> > I presume that Kibyat' is an imperfective verb ? :-)
>
Furrfu!
"Kibo" (as the "o" ending shows perfectly clearly) is Esperanto, and is
a noun. ("Hey Marge! This Kibo needs a Post-It (TM)!")
The adjective form is "Kiba" ("Oooo, you're so... *Kiba*, darling!")
Verb forms are:
Infinitive Kibi ("Kibi, or not Kibi, that is the question.")
Past Kibis
Present Kibas
Future Kibos
Imperative Kibu ("Kibu *this*, Mr. President!")
Conditional Kibus
And that's pronounced "KEE-boh".
David Wolff
Disclaimer: Reflecting Computervision policy is a non-goal of this posting.
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Carol Osterbrock
>The verb form is conjugated, in Russian, as
> (Ya) Kibo
> (Tii) Kibesh
> (On, ona, ono) Kibeyete
> (Mii) Kibyem
> (Vii) Bacon
> (Oni) Kibyat
>The second person plural is irregular.
Heh. So is the first person singular, right? Is this bait or
something?
-carol "kib *you*? I hardly even know you!" o
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James Kibo Parry
> Is this bait or something?
Ladies and gentlemen, I propose this as the official
alt.fan.warlord-alt.religion.kibology cross-posting motto for 1993!
-- K.
Rich Alderson
"kibo" is never declined, and is always conjugated!
--
Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
--J. R. R. Tolkien,
alde...@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
Otto-Ville Ronkainen
: Isn't kibo declined
:
: Kibo
: Kibas
: Kibat
: Kibamus
: Kibatis
: Kibant
Nah, that may be the way it is conjugated, but this is how it is declined:
kibo kibot
kibon kibojen
kiboa kiboja
kibona kiboina
kiboksi kiboiksi
kibossa kiboissa
kibosta kiboista
kiboon kiboihin
kibolla kiboilla
kibolta kiboilta
kibolle kiboille
kibotta kiboitta
kiboineen
kiboin
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o...@snakemail.hut.fi
Christopher T. Schuster
figure out what 'kibo' means.... kibology... etc. as in alt.imploding.kibo,
alt.politics.kibo.
Also, what is ISDN? I haven't quite gotten that one yet, either!
thanks
otto
YuNoHoo
> Also, what is ISDN? I haven't quite gotten that one yet, either!
It used to be ~I Still Don't kNow", but I not certain any longer.
The acronym is printed on some of our phones. Maybe it's significant.
---
YuNoHoo "newbie trawling? me...?"
Chris Cleverly
>ct...@cec2.wustl.edu (Christopher T. Schuster) writes:
>> Also, what is ISDN? I haven't quite gotten that one yet, either!
>
>It used to be ~I Still Don't kNow", but I not certain any longer.
>The acronym is printed on some of our phones. Maybe it's significant.
>
Ho, ho, ho. Mr. Telecom :) :) :)
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>--
>--------------------------------------- \\\\
>| Chris Cleverley, | . .
>| elt...@deep-thought.ericsson.se | S
>--------------------------------------- ~ "...I have a cunning plan..."
You wouldn't know a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced on the
table singing 'Cunning plans are here again'
Chris Cleverly
>>--
>You wouldn't know a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced on the
>table singing 'Cunning plans are here again'
>
At least I'm not a fat bastard...
Bruce D. Davis
what's the difference between a band of pygmies and a girl's track team???
.
.
.
one's a cunning bunch of runts...
--
bruce (spin doktor)
Charlie Gibbs
(YuNoHoo) writes:
>ct...@cec2.wustl.edu (Christopher T. Schuster) writes:
>> Also, what is ISDN? I haven't quite gotten that one yet, either!
>
>It used to be ~I Still Don't kNow", but I not certain any longer.
>The acronym is printed on some of our phones. Maybe it's significant.
Considering how little progress it's made, I've heard people suggest:
It Still Does Nothing
Charli...@mindlink.bc.ca
If your nose runs and your feet smell, you're built upside-down.
5150
>I have been wondering the usenet forever (or so it seems) and I have never
>been able to figure out what 'kibo' means.... kibology... etc. as in
>alt.imploding.kibo, alt.politics.kibo.
Well, why don't you ask Kibo? You're allowed to ask him.
>Also, what is ISDN? I haven't quite gotten that one yet, either!
According to Henry Spencer, it's "Incredibly Slow and Dumb Network".
5150
Paul Tomblin
>what's the difference between a band of pygmies and a girl's track team???
[very lame punchline deleted]
<<<PLONK>>>
(With extreme prejudice)
--
Paul Tomblin, p...@compass.gvc.com
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"I don't have time to think it through: I've got to get this code written!"
Matt Welsh
>b...@onion.eng.hou.compaq.com (Bruce D. Davis) writes:
>
>>what's the difference between a band of pygmies and a girl's track team???
>[very lame punchline deleted]
>
><<<PLONK>>>
>
>(With extreme prejudice)
What? Did the original joke have anything to do with Morris Dancers?
mdw
--
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"It's a Katana, ya Midwestern computer geek." --Tom Payne
