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From: mjann@hotcity.COM (Maureen Jann)
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: Re: Witchcraft
Date: 11 Jan 93 08:59:11 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <C0Ixn4.6GE.1@cs.cmu.edu>, drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake) writes:
>mlgreer@eng.clemson.edu writes:
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>>>>>Yes...but I was speaking more of the philosophy of the religions, rather
>>>>>than the actual practices...eg, Baptists think that everybody who isn't a
>>>>>Baptist (or at least a Protestant Christian) is evil and misguided and
>>>>>going to go to hell, whereas you wouldn't find many witches thinking that
>>>>>about other people (except maybe Baptists......)
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>>The statement about Baptists is totally wrong.  Baptists feel that if you 
>>have net accepted Christ as your personal savior you will go to hell, they 
>>don't feel that if you are not Baptist you will go to hell.  Bone up on your 
>>religion before you make a statement like that, boy.
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>Gee, boys, sounds like we have a Baptist on alt.evil...or at least a
>Baptist-lover (which is even worse; you can almost feel sorry for Baptists,
>they don't know any better -- at least, Southern Baptists).  I see you don't
>know how to read between parentheses, so I'm sorry I included them in the
>last post where I modified the statement you objected to (actually, I'm not
>sorry at all; but I'm saying this between parentheses, where this schmuck
>can't read).
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>Looks like the contingent is complete...we have a Baptist now, so we can
>*really* start to learn how to be evil!
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>-- 
>Love and Laughter,             | NOTE: Private mail must go explicitly
>Xeper and Remanifest,          | to drake@seismo.soar.cs.cmu.edu
>                       DRAKE   | or it'll bounce back to you...
hehehehehahaha This shoudl be really fun to watch! 
                                Me
From: ufaustus@mcl.ucsb.edu (Dr Faustus)
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: Re: Witchcraft
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:12:20 GMT

In <1993Jan7.193311.23224@hubcap.clemson.edu> mlgreer@eng.clemson.edu (matthew greer) writes:



>The statement about Baptists is totally wrong.  Baptists feel that if you have net accepted Christ as your personal savior you will go to hell, they don't feel that if you are not Baptist you will go to hell.  Bone up on your religion before you make a statement like that, boy.

Gee, what a great statment, if you don't accept Christ, YOU GO TO HELL!
So let's say a man is the kindest man in the world(enough to put any
Christian to shame)but he happens to be Jewish(still one of God's
"Chosen" people)He gets an express trip to hell.  Of couse Jews don't
believe in hell, but we're talking hypathetical(sp).  I myself am
Catholic, an I know for a fact most Protestant(Baptists especially)think
that Catholics are going to hell for worshiping God the "wrong" way.
Just some thoughts........

			Dr Faustus

P.S. What does this have to do with witchcraft??
Newsgroups: alt.evil
From: drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake)
Subject: Re: Witchcraft
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:20:40 GMT

In article <mjann.2isz@hotcity.COM> mjann@hotcity.COM (Maureen Jann) writes:

>>Yes...but I was speaking more of the philosophy of the religions, rather than
>>the actual practices...eg, Baptists think that everybody who isn't a Baptist
>>(or at least a Protestant Christian) is evil and misguided and going to go
>>to hell, whereas you wouldn't find many witches thinking that about other
>>people (except maybe Baptists......)
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>Ya That is most religioins.....I had a friend that was going out with a
>christian girl and her church convinced her to break up with him and hate him
>because he wasn't christian...

Now that is evil.

I'd say that most of the institutionalized religions are that way.  A few
aren't, mostly Eastern - Buddhism and Taoism jump to mind - but most of
the Middle Eastern religions are - Islam, Christianity.  I don't think that
the Native American religions were, and most (if not all) of the 'newer'
religions don't have this exclusivism built in to them; eg, Wicca, Eckanar,
Theosophy...even Satanism doesn't condemn people who aren't Satanist simply
on those grounds.



-- 
Love and Laughter,             | NOTE: Private mail must go explicitly
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                       DRAKE   | or it'll bounce back to you...
Newsgroups: alt.evil
From: clg151@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Subject: I think I am Satan's boy.
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:02:27 GMT


I am the twin brother of Elvis Presley and Satan, I presume, is my father.
I look and sound like Shakin' Stevens and my favourite colour is red.
Am I evil?

Presley, Glasgow

PS My thirteen daughters are all bitches
From: mjann@hotcity.COM (Maureen Jann)
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: Re: Witchcraft
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:21:20 PST
Organization: BBS

I think taht we should all just do what we want, and just tell religiion to
fuck off, personal opinion...not meant to be crude, but if it was, So be it..
                                        \c2 Me
Newsgroups: alt.evil
From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (.)
Subject: Re: Your help is needed! Please read.
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:54:56 GMT

troy@athena.cs.uga.edu (Troy Johnson) writes:
: This is a short request to all the users of the Net I can reach.
: I and several friends have been assembling a list of "Noble
: Rhetoric and Snappy Comebacks" from tv, movies, books, politics, etc. 
: as a hobby for sometime now and we've reached around 600 different
								          
 I suggest the immortal "Die, rat bastard."
From: meachen@med.wcc.govt.nz (Red)
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: Re: totally evil
Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:52:04 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
Reply-To: meachen@med.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: blade.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1993Jan12.045135.21018@nuscc.nus.sg>, matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (brett mcinnes) writes:
>warren.hughes@oosight.status.gen.nz (Warren Hughes) writes:
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>: Hey boyz n' girlz, heres a testicle from New Zealand.
>: 
>: Warren
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>:  * OLX 2.1 TD * If it ain't broke yet, let me have a shot at it.


Baaaaa!!!

--
Red
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: MAFIA APPLICATION FORM
From: meachen@med.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 6 Jan 1993 05:30:16 GMT
Reply-To: meachen@med.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
NNTP-Posting-Host: blade.wcc.govt.nz


			MAFIA APPLICATION


Whatza U Name .....................	U Hage .....

Whatza U Houwza Numero .....		U Streeta ........

Whatza U Bag   Hitta Man ...	Lona Arranger ...    Prostitutt

Izza U Girl or Boy (orrizza U a Girl, Oh Boy) ......  Justte check one
                                                    (Wizza guy)

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Putta Downna Your Worgge Now ...................

Wera U Inna De Bigga Ouse ... For whatza wazza U inna de Bigga Ouse

I shootz one guy .......	I keednap sumbodys ....

Procteckion rackets ....        Udda thingza ....

U wanna be a Big Shootz sumdaze  Yasse ...  No ... Eh ...

U lika eat   	 	Garlic ....   Pizza ....  Salami ....

U No owz makka de Cement Shooz .........

U Driva de Car .... 	Cadelac .... Buick ....	  Linken ....

U likka 	Spagehetti ...  Calamari ... Girlze ... Boyz ...
					(Peek jussta one - No Foola
					 around cos I Slapa U Face)

U sees De Godfather (or Justa de movie) ...

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Widde U Antry U Gonna Getta Something U Really Gonna Likke

	1 pr. darke. glasses		1 ib mozzarella cheese
	1 blacke shirt widde wite tie	1 kiss (later onna U cheek)
	1 pr. pointe shoes		1 wite hat widde black brim
	1 pr. cement shooze (come later when U foola rounde)
	happy face button		1 spumoni (tutti-frutti)
	8 X 10" picther Frank Sintara

(Iffa U notte sure I talle you whatza U get, Wizza guy)


Join de Club now while U still can write.

Signa herz X ....................................



--
Red
From: IO20746@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.evil
Subject: Re: Witchcraft
Date: 10 Jan 93 19:10:58 GMT
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Organization: University of Maine System

In article <43267@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, zcollier@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Scottish Bastard)
says:
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>whatever the fuck you practice.  We like to read stories about those who
>mutilate people, pets, barnyard animals, or whatever seems evil.  Death is
>good to read about too.  Please stop wasting our time and space on our
>our newsgroup.  I'd also like to point out that none of us care about the
>discussion of abstract evil.  We simply like stories of its practice.
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>Again, thank you for wasting no more of our time.
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 My word what a pompous attitude we have. I guess I missed the opening
 credits which give you full right to control what people decide to
 post in this section. Please forgive us who are unworthy.

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>American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God.
Newsgroups: alt.evil
From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (brett mcinnes)
Subject: Re: Evil in general
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:37:36 GMT

sa114984@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steven Arnold) writes:
: 	Evil and good: the Western duality as a solution, digital everything. 
: Everything can be expressed, given enough 1's and 0's.  The Western tradition is
: digital; the eastern is analog.  Both are overgeneralizations.  Infinity is an
: overgeneralization.  Language is an overgeneralization.  Reality is an
: overgeneralization, and an anthropomorphism besides.
But bullshit is just general enough.
Newsgroups: alt.evil
From: drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake)
Subject: Re: Witchcraft
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:18:35 GMT

mlgreer@eng.clemson.edu writes:

>>>>Yes...but I was speaking more of the philosophy of the religions, rather
>>>>than the actual practices...eg, Baptists think that everybody who isn't a
>>>>Baptist (or at least a Protestant Christian) is evil and misguided and
>>>>going to go to hell, whereas you wouldn't find many witches thinking that
>>>>about other people (except maybe Baptists......)
>
>The statement about Baptists is totally wrong.  Baptists feel that if you 
>have net accepted Christ as your personal savior you will go to hell, they 
>don't feel that if you are not Baptist you will go to hell.  Bone up on your 
>religion before you make a statement like that, boy.

Gee, boys, sounds like we have a Baptist on alt.evil...or at least a
Baptist-lover (which is even worse; you can almost feel sorry for Baptists,
they don't know any better -- at least, Southern Baptists).  I see you don't
know how to read between parentheses, so I'm sorry I included them in the
last post where I modified the statement you objected to (actually, I'm not
sorry at all; but I'm saying this between parentheses, where this schmuck
can't read).

Looks like the contingent is complete...we have a Baptist now, so we can
*really* start to learn how to be evil!



-- 
Love and Laughter,             | NOTE: Private mail must go explicitly
Xeper and Remanifest,          | to drake@seismo.soar.cs.cmu.edu
                       DRAKE   | or it'll bounce back to you...
Newsgroups: alt.evil
From: drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake)
Subject: Re: Witchcraft
Summary: Is Witchcraft better than Christianity?
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:27:20 GMT

In article <mjann.2iiv@hotcity.COM> mjann@hotcity.COM (Maureen Jann) writes:

>>>Would you say that witchcraft would be considered EVIL? 
>>
>>No way...at least, not most versions of it.  Some are, in fact, 'better' than
>>some types of Christianity (notably particular Fundamentalist Baptist sects).
>>
>Well, actually, some of the Christian rituals that are practiced are derived
>from whichcraft including the "Yule Log" and "Mitsletoe"<sp?>

Yes...but I was speaking more of the philosophy of the religions, rather than
the actual practices...eg, Baptists think that everybody who isn't a Baptist
(or at least a Protestant Christian) is evil and misguided and going to go
to hell, whereas you wouldn't find many witches thinking that about other
people (except maybe Baptists...)




-- 
Love and Laughter,             | NOTE: Private mail must go explicitly
Xeper and Remanifest,          | to drake@seismo.soar.cs.cmu.edu
                       DRAKE   | or it'll bounce back to you...
From: crawford@boole.mitre.org (Randy Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: "Hack", and RTF
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:22:01 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Originator: crawford@boole.mitre.org


In article <199301070002.chess@bedivere.watson.ibm.com>, chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess) writes:
> In the song "Cocaine Blues" (George Thorogood and the Destroyers etc),
> there's a line "You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down".
> An interesting use of "hack"; does anyone know the connotation of
> this usage, and/or what liguistic community uses it this way?

Websters II New Riverside lists among its definitions for hack:

3.a  One who does unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward:
HIRELING.  (especially working as a writer or taxi driver.) 
-- 

| Randy Crawford        crawford@mitre.org        The MITRE Corporation
|                                                 7525 Colshire Dr., MS Z421
| N=1 -> P=NP           703 883-7940              McLean, VA  22102
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Date: Sat,  9 Jan 1993 22:42:29 -0500 
From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Norton futilities for data recovery

Excerpts from netnews.alt.hackers: 9-Jan-93 Re: Norton futilities for
d.. by Mike Marcelais@eos.ncsu. 
> Well, try poking around in the controler for the circut that does the
> auto-parking and disable it.  Probably will void the warranty though.

Some drives do it all manually also.  The R40 (and I think R44) drives
that used to come with the low-end IBM RT's just have a catch the holds
the heads on the inner edge of the platters.  If you cut that catch
(which is accessible from the outside of the drive, it is underneath the
drive controller) the drive heads just wouldn't ever park (so you would
have to use a program like diskmon from NU6 to park the heads).  

A CDC Wren II (i think this is the drive type, it is an old 70 meg MFM
drive) that I have has a similar problem, in that the heads won't unpark
when you boot it up.  Ended up having to replace it with a new drive... 
Too bad they didn't just have an external catch, or I could have done a
similar hack.

alex


Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: alan@nxsci173a.mrs.umn.edu (Puffin)
Subject: test
Followup-To: alt.flame
Keywords: test
Reply-To: kruegewa@cda.mrs.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Distribution: umm
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:57:37 GMT

This is a test!
--
   W. Alan "Puffin" Krueger  | >> fixed action set in motion doubting amnesia
  Univ of Minnesota, Morris  |    potion what to hide red carpet ride guessing
KRUEGEWA  @  CAB.MRS.UMN.EDU |    right << tIN oMEN sKINNY pUPPY
ALAN  @ NXSCI173.MRS.UMN.EDU | Listen to the U~90 Alternative!  KUMM 89.7 fm
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: rbodor@leland.Stanford.EDU (Richard Bodor)
Subject: Hey, La, My Boyfriend's Hack
Keywords: BONZAI!!!
Organization: Joe's Garage
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 07:28:07 GMT


ObHack: Painting my girlfriends white cat purple while she was on vacation.
The only problem was that the "watercolors" that we used weren't all that
soluble in water, we later realized.

ObHack2: Finding a new girlfriend (I'm still working on this one).

Me
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: dcj@netcom.com (David C. Jenne)
Subject: Re: "Hack", and RTF
Organization: Solipsist Society
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:46:48 GMT

David M. Chess (chess@watson.ibm.com) wrote:
: In the song "Cocaine Blues" (George Thorogood and the Destroyers etc),
: there's a line "You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down".
: An interesting use of "hack"; does anyone know the connotation of
: this usage, and/or what liguistic community uses it this way?


According to my Dictionary of American Slang (vintage 1960 [yeah, the same one
my southern California high school banned from the library, so my eventual hack
{read that as "revenge"} was to BUY it many years later at a garage sale]),
skipping the more known definitions...

     hack   n.
     ...
     5. A prison guard, a prison official; a watchman.
     Convict use. -> 6. A white person. [in italacs] Prison use. In the US this
     term never means girl, as it does in Australia.

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     /_/ /_  /       David C. Jenne', CS Consultant       dcj@netcom.com
           _/        Menlo Park, CA USA  94025-3615       (415) 322-9619
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (Mike Marcelais)
Subject: Re: REPOST of Hacker Personality Characteristics
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:04:11 GMT

In article <BUHR.93Jan8101523@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr) writes:
|> In article <BUHR.93Jan7175252@ccu.umanitoba.ca> I wrote:
|> |
|> |  Many of you have probably seen this excerpt from some jargon file or
|> |  another.  The reposter didn't post it to alt.hackers, for some inane
|> |  reason.
|> |
|> |  Kevin <buhr@ccu.UManitoba.CA>
|> 
|> [ and now the confusing part... ]
|> 
|> |  Charter Member of the INFJ Club.
|> |
|> |  Now, if you're just dying to know what INFJ stands for, be brave, e-mail me,
|> |  and I'll send you some information.  It WILL be worth the inquiry, I think.
|> For the record, I've been tested as an "INTP":  classic hacker
|> material, evidently.  Who'd have thought?
|> 
|> Kevin <buhr@ccu.UManitoba.CA>

Most hackers I know are either ISTP or INTP, with a few ISTJ's thrown in.  I
don't think their is a standard group for 'hackers though'

Personally, I'm an IST- (neutral between P and J, but extreem on everything
else.)

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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr)
Subject: Re: REPOST of Hacker Personality Characteristics
Organization: University of Manitoba, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:15:23 GMT

In article <BUHR.93Jan7175252@ccu.umanitoba.ca> I wrote:
|
|  Many of you have probably seen this excerpt from some jargon file or
|  another.  The reposter didn't post it to alt.hackers, for some inane
|  reason.
|
|  Kevin <buhr@ccu.UManitoba.CA>

[ and now the confusing part... ]

|  Charter Member of the INFJ Club.
|
|  Now, if you're just dying to know what INFJ stands for, be brave, e-mail me,
|  and I'll send you some information.  It WILL be worth the inquiry, I think.

Aside from one fellow who just thought it was a lame posting (I'm of
the opposite opinion--I think it's fairly insightful and represents
better press than hackers usually get), two people were interested in
knowing what INFJ stood for.

The fact is, I was just reposting the original posting.  I'm *not* a
Charter Member of the INFJ Club, though I happen to know what "INFJ"
essentially means.  If you want more detail, you want to contact the
original poster, <noring@netcom.com>.

The Myers-Briggs (sp?) personality classification system categorizes
people with four binary measures, represented by a four letter
mnemonic.  The classification system does not end there, and there are
a number of refinements concerning "dominant" characteristics and the
like.

The first letter, either "I" or "E", stands for "Introverted" or
"Extroverted".  The second letter, either an "N" or an "S" stands for
"Intuitive" or "Sensing".  The third letter, "T" or "F" stands for
"Thinker" or "Feeler".  The final letter, either a "J" or a "P" stands
for "Judger" or "Perceiver".

I may not have the forms of the terms right, and they have technical
definitions, so don't try to decode an INFJ as a Intuitive Introvert
who Feels like Judging.

In a nutshell, the I/E pair has roughly the same meaning it usually
has in psychological typing (which is more rigorously defined than the
colloquial use of the terms).  The N/S pair deals with how a person
collects knowledge, though "N" shouldn't be misinterpreted as meaning
the person relies on gut feeling all the time.  The T/F pair deals
essentially with how emotions factor into the decision-making process.
Finally, the J/P pair appears to have something to do with planning
and time allocation.  I have never been able to reconcile the "Judger"
and "Perceiver" terms with their apparent meaning, however.

For the record, I've been tested as an "INTP":  classic hacker
material, evidently.  Who'd have thought?

Kevin <buhr@ccu.UManitoba.CA>
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: "Hack", and RTF
From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:38:19 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Originator: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <199301070002.chess@bedivere.watson.ibm.com>, chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess) wrote:
}Hack: a REXX program to translate a small subset (really small;
}eensty-beentsy in fact) of GML into Microsoft RTF, so the Windows

How about a pair of large SED scripts to convert back and forth between
a subset of RTF and Borland Sprint?  Used them when exchanging chapters
of _PC_Interrupts_ back and forth with Jim Kyle (who was using MS Word).

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: magnus@brisk.ii.uib.no (Magnus Y Alvestad)
Subject: Re: "Hack", and RTF
Reply-To: magnus@ii.uib.no
Organization: UVBS -> SFK/T-DSA / SOPS - HOS / RNoN
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	<d9mj.726784381@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 00:02:47 GMT

>>>>> On 11 Jan 93 20:33:01 GMT, d9mj@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Scott
>>>>> Coolness) said:

	Scott> A hack can also be a bad surgeon.

Oh. That must probably refer to the original definition of hacker;
someone that makes furniture with an axe;

  hack; someone that does surgeoning with an axe.

-Magnus
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Hack, and RTF
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 9 Jan 93 05:34:54 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess) writes:
> >In many English speaking countries, the term "hack" is commonly used
> >to describe newspaper reporters. I thought this was used in the US as
> >well....
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> Definitely!  But I don't think that's the intent in this case.  The
> connotation here seems to be something like "cocaine user" or "criminal"
> or perhaps just "jerk/fool/creep".  It's certainly not "hack" as used
> in this newsgroup, for instance, nor does it seem to be "reporter"
> or "unskilled writer" or "taxi (driver)" or "cigarette smoker" or
> "short cough".  Maybe it just happened to fit nicely in the lyric...   *8)

hack 2  1 n. horse for ordinary riding; horse let out for riding; person
hired to do dull routine work, esp as a writer.
				 -- New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary.

--
Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555)                        don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
Network Manager, Computing Services Centre            don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand              +64-4-495-5052