@hingehead,
From Terry Bisson's classic, "They're Made Out of Meat"
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
Quote:...
"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
"I thought you just told me they used radio."
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much...."
...
I don't think this is just a teenager strategy....
@hingehead,
It's not. I find myself doing it a lot.
@Lustig Andrei,
Didn't work for me, either.
Hell, i've been doing that for years. As long as you don't release the mouse button, and drag it away from any active point on the screen, you're good to go.
@Setanta,
These kids today.
Think they discover everything.
@chai2,
Each new generation believes they have discovered and invented everything. Clearly, we did.
@Setanta,
Sure. Then we feel we need to regulate it.
No thanks . . . i ain't into politics.
My super smart, geeky Australian girlfriend left me yesterday. She didn't give me a reason, and the final conversation we had seemed fairly unremarkable to me. She was talking about a recent trip to Siberia, where according to her it was minus 40 degrees. Now, I'm no dummy, so I know they use centrigrade in Oz. So I ask her whether she means farhenheit or centrigrade. But I haven't heard from her since! What's WRONG with her???
@Kolyo,
That's good, but pretty obscure. I'm not so sure that very many people, even ostensible geeks, know at what point those two scales coincide.
@Setanta,
I guess you're right. You really have to have lived in both a Fahrenheit-speaking country and a Celsius-speaking country (and through -40 degree weather) to get that.
Really, though, that makes it a nearly perfect geek/nerd joke.
@Kolyo,
I haven't been through -40 degree weather, but I got it. Maybe because Oz used to have Fahrenheit and now has Celsius, so I've lived through both.
