[plug] Just got rooted

[Mark Nold]

What is offensive about "rooted"?

Isn't it's common usage amongst geeks to mean that someone has illicitely
gotten access to a root account? Also playing on the double meaning of being
sexully taken advantage of?

It's actually quite clever and I don't see how this is offensive at all.

It's just as offensive as the Root account (wish i had one of those),
Male -> Female adaptors, hard disks (snigger), and seedy roms.

But it's much less offensive than way off topic politically correct posts.


mn


(But then again im a non-snipping top-posting emacs user, so please feel
free to ignore my opinions on the subject :)




-----Original Message-----
From: Bret Busby [mailto:bret at busby.net]
Sent: Sunday, 31 March 2002 6:50 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Just got rooted


On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, David Broadway wrote:

An offensive message, apparently for the purpose of being offensive.

Can we please not have offensive messages posted to the list.

Thank you in anticipation.

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Bret Busby
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