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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>STR</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="store.html" title="store"/><link rel="next" href="strided.html" title="strided"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">STR</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="store.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="strided.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="STR"/><dt xmlns="" id="STR"><b>STR</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Spot the reference. Used in
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<a href="scary-devil-monastery.html"><i class="glossterm">scary devil monastery</i></a> to mark the witticism one just uttered as a quote
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from some work of art or literature, the more obscure the better. Those who
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know where the reference comes from reply in the form “<span class="quote">You are
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$CHARACTER, and you owe me $ITEM</span>”, where $CHARACTER is a character
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from the story being referenced and $ITEM is something associated with that
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character. This acronym is never actually expanded to its proper meaning in
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the newsgroup; posters instead use obscure expansions, the most common
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being “<span class="quote">slurp the robot</span>”, leading to comments like “<span class="quote">I
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pulled my hair out, but couldn't figure out which robot you're
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