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3000th thread!

Sheesh... remember when we didn't have off topic?! What the hell did we do without it? The best resource for everything non-empeg on the web!

Frist post!

Me too !

This topic is a dupe!

your wrong. you guyz r all wrong.

How convenient, the perfect thread to waste my 700th post in...

Yep.... <nod>

Yes, but I could make one cheaper from parts I have lying around!

pca

And of course not forgetting a small aubergine

And it would run linux on clustered processors, while controlling all your base.

Yeah, imagine a Beowulf cluster of small aubergines! Does it support Ogg, though?

In Soviet Russia, Ogg controls you!

/Michael

**brainfart***

....ahhh...never mind I forgot what I was going to say.

I'd buy 12 in a second if it supports OGG, but if it doesn't, it's shite.

Look at genixia's profile pic! I can't believe all you people are falling for this obvious troll!

I can't beleive anonymous_coward hasn't posted yet!

RIAA SUX!

-BOFH

I can't beleive anonymous_coward hasn't posted yet!

RIAA SUX!

He is busy making a Natalie Portman/Goatsex joke on another BBS. And that should be sux0rs.

-Mike

We need a really bored person to go through the threads and see what the top 5 subjects are

i guesss

No1 How do i fix this damn computer
No2 Reccomdation on best new toy
No3 Cars
No4 new stupid link
No5 Food

What? No SCO story?

I think he meant empegbbs O/T.
-Z

I built one which plays ogg, running on a beowulf cluster of aubergines. But I got bored with it and sold it on ebay. got $15 change after getting a new graphics card.

all your base are mine!!!!

whats an aubergine? Is it like a blancmange?

An aubergine's an eggplant. It's also the color of an eggplant.

Nah - it's colour is usually called "Aubergine"

I'd never even heard of an eggplant until last year - I think it must be a US thing. Or alternatively, I'm just dim - who knows? It's lunchtime anyway...

That's just one of those US/Britain differences. Like truck/lorry, elevator/lift, etc. I guess that the eggplant/aubergine must have not been popular before the 19th century.

Nah - it's colour is usually called "Aubergine"

I don't understand. Isn't that what I said? Or are you correcting my capitalization?

I'd never even heard of an eggplant until last year - I think it must be a US thing.

You'll have to get a lot more obscure than that, Sonny Jim, if you want to veer onto a topic that hasn't been covered before. Perhaps the eggplant/aubergine thing should go in the FAQ?

Peter

The old US/English variances are fun enough, but I only recently realized that the same is true of other languages as well.
A French friend once told me that his countrymen laugh at french-canadians use of french. Also Mexican spanish is rather different to Spain spanish. I believe that the Mexican word for icecream is the Spanish word for "lard" or "fat", hmmm tasty.

I reckon it is something to do with the language crossing the atlantic.

Isolation of population / language groups. Very likely. They evolve differently. Just as dialects evolve. The average person does not really travel across the continent often enough to change speech patterns, so you still hear regional differences (i.e., New York, Southern, etc.). As the population travels more widely, the dialects are fewer and spread over a wider area.

And modern telecommunications has made some interesting changes to language as well.

Okay, this thread is evolving into way too intelligent of a discussion. Please keep replies on topic with the parent post regarding Slashdot.

Sorry...

Would it help if I mention that one of those innovations of telecommunications is the rise of "Leet Speak"? Or, sorry, "L33t SpeeK"?

Sorry.

http://goatse.cx

(BTW, if you don't know what that is, I can guarantee you don't want to click on it. If you do, I don't want to know you.)

Just because I know what it is, or only if I knew and still wanted to click it? (and no, I most definately don't want to)

/Michael

The latter.

Hmm, no idea what it is. I'll try and keep it that way too.

Good thing you wanted to. I thought about Googling it so I would get a description instead of the actual thing, but I foolishly forgot that entering a link into Google automatically takes you to the site.

I hate you, Google. My eyes have been burned.

My 1547th post!