Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Describe how to count up to 1023 on 10 fingers. :)
>
> My wife and I (both CS) use this method exclusivly. I think I have
> even posted this here before.
>
> Anyway, one day we went to the grocer on our way for a long road
> trip. From across the store, she wanted to know how many Necterines
> to get total. Using hand signals I asked how many se whould like. She
> held up her index finger signeling that she would want 2. I then
> replied that I would also want 2 and responded that this made 4 total.
>
> A guy that had been standing close to me but between my wife and I
> came over and began to yell at me. I had no idea why, and I called
> for security. When security arived, several soccer moms close by got
> involved and told them that I had been rude to the man and that was
> why he was attacking me. I then realized what had happned and tried
> to explain....It did little good though, they just could not
> understand how I could have been counting in that manner.
>
> I like to use this now as a kind of insult, you hold up 4 fingers on
> one hand and ask the insult reciever to convert to binary.
Oh, man, that story is even better than the one I have about that
gesture!
Ages ago, Dan was working on software to help make AutoCAD run faster.
The software included a display list, which made things go faster, and
they could add extra features that AutoCAD didn't have at the time. One
such feature was True Erase(tm). (At least, I think it was trademarked,
I could be wrong, though.) If you wanted to change a vector in AutoCAD,
what it did initially was to put a black vector over the one that was
there, and then create the new vector. True Erase would get rid of the
old vector and the black vector a lot sooner than AutoCAD would, which
helped boost performance. The company president was trying to explain
this to a customer at a trade show, and held up three fingers -- one for
the old vector, one for the new vector, one for the covering vector. He
then went on to say how True Erase got rid of the old and covering
vectors.
He didn't pick the correct finger for the new vector.
So one of our little inside jokes is to say "True Erase!" instead of the
actual insult.
> The UT marching band went to south america and were thrown out of a
> band competition for using the hook-em-horns sign, which means
> something very vulgar. After a lot of explaining and a promise not to
> repeat the offense they were allowed back 3 years latter. At this
> point they decided that if they could not use the hoom-em then they
> would hold up an OK sign. Unfortunatly the hand signals are
> synonimous.
Query: When was this?
Julia
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