[rescue] Re: Landscaping with technology

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Tue Jun 17 11:19:53 CDT 2003


On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:15:49AM -0500, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:11:52PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:50:49PM +1000, Robert Rose wrote:
> > > At 03:38 PM 16/06/2003 -0500, mrbill wrote:
> > > >Even better is when you send the PCL command to a HP printer at
> > > >college to say "INSERT 25 CENTS".  then watch the freshman try to
> > > >find the quarter slot..
> > > 
> > > Damnit Bill, I have coffee sprayed all over my laptop now.
> > 
> > FYI, this maneuver is known in the #Callahans/alt.callahans world as
> > "kittening".  :)
> 
> kittening?

So named after one Barbara "Kitten" Trumpinski, aka Conan the Librarian,
who read a particularly outrageous pun one day while drinking soda and
sprayed it all over her monitor.  Thus are new verbs born.  :)


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