Oh my, whatever became of the good old "asl plz?" :)
I have obviously led far too sheltered a life:
Back in June, I learned that, if one's wife suddenly sports a
Brazilian, it might be wise to reevaluate the health of one's
marriage; further, if she proceeds to empty the bank accounts and max
out one's credit cards during a visit to her "ailing mother", it
might be advisable to retain counsel as soon as possible. Your
humble narrator, having failed utterly to do either of these things
until well after having been ambushed with the papers, recalls being
distinctly non-amused with this lesson.
On the other hand, last week having been Carnaval, I was vastly
amused to learn that protocol IRL is almost exactly similar to that
of IRC, modulo the easily verified fact that in meatspace gender is
displayed but handles are not, so a natural transformation maps "asl"
to "anl": age, name, location.
-Dave
