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Re: txt msgs & BrSc

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 20, 2001, 14:20
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 04:13:52 -0400 D Tse <exponent@...>
writes:
> >> D Tse wrote: > >> > I believe the technical term is now "k00l" but "l33t". > > > >> And what does "l33t" mean, and where does it come from? > >> -- > >> AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42
> >I assume it comes from "3l33t" = "eleet" = "elite". > >That's what my hacker friend in 7th grade used to say. > >He also used to use the word "K-Rad".
> Excuse me?? "K-Rad"?! These are the sorts of people who should be > put to sleep :) > Imperative
- Well, actually, before he could teach me how to "be 3l33t" like he had offered to, he stopped coming to two-thirds of the days of class and was in and out of a hospital with psychological (probably suicidal) problems. So not a good joke. -Stephen (Steg) "do not fear night-terror, nor the arrow that flies by day."