From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 5 10:36:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E63E154F4 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-248.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.248]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA06031; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 12:35:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37A9CB59.ABB78856@airnet.net> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 12:35:21 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sitting inside, looking out... References: <19990803164207.A46171@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <30735.933704575@critter.freebsd.dk> <19990804163923.A13708@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990805104106.A13504@caamora.com.au> <19990805015147.D1109@marder-1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:41:06AM +1000, jonathan michaels wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 04:39:23PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > > > But why stop at t-shirts? FreeBSD boxer shorts? Bra and panties? Anoraks? > > > > > > OK, maybe not the last one. > > > > so what is an anorak(s), i take it that the (s) means more than > > one of then ? > > > > this leads tot he question "OK, maybe not the last one." > > refering to the anorak word ? > > > > i've heard this word lots of times and all the time its a > > different style of jacket being refered to, though they all > > seem to agree it comes from your neck of the world, so i > > thought i'd ask you. > > > > They're a weather-proof jacket, usually made from nylon or polyester > with filling/padding for warmth. > > The reason for "OK, maybe not the last one" is because, in the UK > at least, the word is used as a derogatory term for someone who is > considered boring, originally applied to train-spotters (because > they all wear anoraks to keep them warm whilst stood on railway > stations for hours), but now used for people who spend all their > time on their computers and talk about little else. A kind of polite > version of "sad bastard". This was stabbing at my as a word I was recently acquainted with. I didn't remember seeing it here and then I remembered: Simon, the BOFH. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message