================================================ Subject: Re: (NCR)Web site question From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Thu 16 Aug 2001 23:02:56 -0400 ================================================ Thanks for the definition Scott, regarding defenestration. Def # 5 is my next goal.I still have a few uses for Windoze. JC ------------------------- ]\\[][G}{T§TÖ®]v[ wrote: > http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=Defenestration > > 2 definitions found > >>From Jargon File (http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict3&Database=jargon) > (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) : > > defenestration n. [mythically from a traditional Czech assasination > method, via SF fandom] > 1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. "Oh, ghod, that > was _awful_!" "Quick! Defenestrate him!" > 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time > from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of > `defenestrate', which is to throw something out a window. > 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve > matters. "I don't have any disk space left." "Well, why don't you > defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps?" > 4. Under a GUI, the act of dragging something out of a window (onto the > screen). "Next, defenestrate the MugWump icon." > 5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a > better OS (typically Linux). > > >>From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing > (http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict3&Database=foldoc) (13 Mar 01) : > > defenestration > (From the traditional Czechoslovakian method of assassinating prime > ministers, via SF fandom) > 1. Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster. "Oh, ghod, that > was *awful*!" "Quick! Defenestrate him!" > 2. The act of exiting a window system in order to get better response time > from a full-screen program. This comes from the dictionary meaning of > "defenestrate", which is to throw something out a window. > 3. The act of discarding something under the assumption that it will improve > matters. "I don't have any disk space left." "Well, why don't you > defenestrate that 100 megs worth of old core dumps?" > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:03 AM > Subject: Re: (NCR)Web site question > > > >>Jon, HAAALLLLLPPPPPP! What does that mean?!!!!! >> Rachel aka Moonchild >> >> >>Defenestration >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Creed Discussion List >>>[mailto:CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM] On Behalf Of >>>Moonchild119@AOL.COM >>>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 6:26 PM >>>To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM >>>Subject: Re: (NCR)Web site question >>> >>> >>>Like neato and gnarly? >>> >>>In a message dated 8/14/2001 7:07:30 PM Pacific Daylight >>>Time, King_Dovregubben@HOTMAIL.COM writes: >>> >>><< Yonks. That's a word that just isn't used enough these days. >> >>> >>To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, >> > visit: > >>http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp >> > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > > -- Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. -- Sinclair Lewis To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp