I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Spehro Pefhany
wrote back on Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:28:10
-0500 in rec.crafts.metalworking :
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:34:32 -0800, the renowned sittingduck
wrote:

Searcher wrote:

I see this often and have no clue as to what it means

Thanks
Searcher1



It's a mating call for lonely geeks.

Sort of like fingering, but less invasive. ;-)

Oh yeah, "Finger me for my .plan"

I heard of someone who named the computer "Elvis" in order to be able
to say "Elvis is alive" or "Elvis is dead."

Some of the "early" hackers were, on a scale of e to Pi, about 3.5 for
weirdness.

tschus
pyotr

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."