X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,514ff986557038e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-01 07:39:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!h180n1fls34o1115.telia.COM!not-for-mail From: Veronica Karlsson Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 375 Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 14:50:32 +0000 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3EB13437.6375212A@hotbrev.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: h180n1fls34o1115.telia.com (213.67.71.180) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1051799969 13240995 213.67.71.180 (16 [58193]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.2.22-6.2.3 i586) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:22962 Rainer Rosenthal wrote: > Joaquim G�ndara wrote: > > Yeah, because.. rants and weblogs are stupid, and.. um.. > > In case I'd like to grasp the "deep content" here, maybe it > would be better to know the meaning of weblogs Little girls write diaries, in books with locks on them, which they hide from evil brothers who love to pick those locks and read their sisters' Deepest Secrets. Now, imagine writing such a diary but instead of hiding it you publish it on the web. > as well as > an adequate re-description of what my Oxford Dictionary says: > > rant 1 v. use bombastic language; > declaim, recite theatrically; preach > noisily. 2 n. piece of ranting [Du.] Um... yeah... something like that. If you have too much Strong Feelings about some stupid subject and you write page after page about why X irritates you soooooo much, and then you publish it (e.g. on your weblog). -- ##### c ^ OO /\\\\ ##### | /|\ `^^^^^^^%-- '||` | \\\\ ####-[.]\ / \ " " \ ha ha ha dd /[.]-\\\| ### _| |_ \\| ### (_ http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ _)} == \ / A S C I I A R T C H A T # ||\