Regardless of the correct meaning of chode/choad, the board's usage history is overwhelmingly on the ode side: 16 ode posts, the first made by shofiel at 20/07/00 06:34 PM versus just three of oad, two of which were on this thread.

I will concede however that the oad meaning is clearly the intended.

Where is Bitt when you need him?

-Zeke