[geeks] ping

[s at avoidant.org]

Bill Bradford wrote:

> > Funnier still for me, as my wife calls an erection a "ping".
> 
> What does she call sex, then? a packet flood? 8-)


Heh. She's not much of a computer geek. One day when we were still
newlyweds we were making out and I had the natural reaction, to which
she commented that it went *ping*! Somehow it stuck.

S'arright, gives me a private laugh whenever someone at work asks me to
ping a server.


---sambo