From f8d9c9262e9b414e4407c92ff9ebcd9410da46e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:03:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Remove strange and probably derrogatory stuff --- entries/spod.txt | 28 ---------------------------- 1 file changed, 28 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 entries/spod.txt diff --git a/entries/spod.txt b/entries/spod.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 02d428d..0000000 --- a/entries/spod.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ -spod - -n. [UK] 1. A lower form of life found on talker systems and MUD s. The spod -has few friends in RL and uses talkers instead, finding communication easier -and preferable over the net. He has all the negative traits of the computer -geek without having any interest in computers per se. Lacking any knowledge -of or interest in how networks work, and considering his access a God-given -right, he is a major irritant to sysadmins, clogging up lines in order to -reach new MUDs, following passed-on instructions on how to sneak his way -onto Internet ( Wow! It's in America! ) and complaining when he is not -allowed to use busy routes. A true spod will start any conversation with Are -you male or female? (and follow it up with Got any good -numbers/IDs/passwords? ) and will not talk to someone physically present in -the same terminal room until they log onto the same machine that he is using -and enter talk mode. Compare newbie , tourist , weenie , twink , terminal -junkie , warez d00dz. 2. A backronym for Sole Purpose, Obtain a Degree ; -according to some self-described spods, this term is used by indifferent -students to condemn their harder-working fellows. Compare the defiant -adoption of the term geek in the mid-1990s by people who would previously -have been stigmatized by it. Spods in the positive sense are talker users -who've accumulated a large amount of spod time, that is, they spend a lot of -time logged in to that talker (for example, my spod time on Uberworld as of -this moment is 131 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes). Spods are generally -highly knowledgeable about talkers and SGXStalker coding, as well as -computers and the internet in general. 3. [Glasgow University] An otherwise -competent hacker who spends way too much time on talker systems. 4. [obs.] -An ordinary person; a random. This is the meaning with which the term was -coined, but the inventor informs us he has himself accepted sense 1.