Comments on: Kenya hack it?

Kenya hack it?

sunshinesky — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:52:41 -0800

Would you people stop trying to hack stuff?

Yes, we all loved the movie but for Jod's sake, you can't hack sex.

By: 0xFCAF

0xFCAF — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:57:25 -0800

These guys just drive you batty, don't they?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:58:47 -0800

Maybe you cant hack sex.

By: Reverend John

Reverend John — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:00:08 -0800

Soooo... not gettin' any, eh sunshinesky?

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:02:11 -0800

Richard Gill went on to be the Bunk!

By: sunshinesky

sunshinesky — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:02:53 -0800

whoa, jessamyn, I didn't know your keys were so sharp.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:03:18 -0800

Seriously, the bar for a MetaTalk thread is that you dislike a turn of phrase? Incidentally, you misspelled God's name.

By: MegoSteve

MegoSteve — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:04:50 -0800

I tried hacky sex once, but keeping that little beanbag ball in the air was next to impossible.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:05:27 -0800

Agreed. The hack my baby question was probably the shark jumper here. I like the idea of viewing meatspace objects and activities as software, hardware, and processes and it's interesting to see how computer use has changed our entire metaphorical outlook, but enough with the "hack my bunghole" stuff already.

By: hellojed

hellojed — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:06:32 -0800

Don't worry, in a few months I'll be making the inevitable "I'm a 21 year old virgin help help" post in askMefi, and you can read that and feel better about yourself.

I'll do it anonymously, but I'll use my future puppet g-mail account "69SoFine at gmail dot com" so all you insiders will know.

I have several drafts I'm knocking around....if I'm going to bare my soul I'd like it to have flow and shit.

and then...and only then....we can hack sex to make it easier for me. When I finally get laid, I'll make a post about it in meFi projects.

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:07:37 -0800

Sex Hax? Just add a cock or five.

By: Drama Penguin

Drama Penguin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:08:34 -0800

Ok, I'm not your lawyer, but all this hacking can turn into some nasty lawsuits. So be careful and please talk to your lawyer.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:13:32 -0800

I wrote a greasemonkey script that changes the word "hack" to the string of your choice.

It's sort of a hack hack.

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:14:33 -0800

Hack my bunghole...now THAT is a turn of phrase.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:14:59 -0800

*chugs Robitussin to supress hacking cough*

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:17:18 -0800

So you just can't hack it anymore? (please note I am use meaning #6 here)

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:18:08 -0800

Agreed. No more hacks.

By: Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America

Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:20:25 -0800

Sex hacking is just rape, isn't it?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:20:25 -0800

*hacks own head off*
*detached head looks on in amazement as headless body keeps posting*

By: empath

empath — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:24:04 -0800

Sure you can:

unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes,fsck,fsck,fsck,umount, sleep

By: empath

empath — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:24:53 -0800

sorry, old joke is old

By: Partial Law

Partial Law — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:25:52 -0800

Don't forget the old Kottke-inspired list of hacks.

By: Dipsomaniac

Dipsomaniac — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:27:08 -0800

Y'know, looking at that IMDB link, I think it's tragically apparent that many, many people did NOT love "Hackers".

By: Item

Item — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:27:08 -0800

Ahh - that explains it, jon. kidding! or am I?

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:28:16 -0800

Hey, now. For some folks, hacking is sex. Don't stare at them.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:30:22 -0800

Ahh - that explains it, jon. kidding! or am I?

I hacked your head off, too, dude. If our bodies start fighting, just watch for a while. They'll eventually wear themselves out. maybe some kind soul will pour beer in our heads since we can't do it ourselves. Tragic.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:36:04 -0800

*chugs Robitussin to supress hacking cough*

You gots to be careful, you'll start hacking more than your cough.

I wrote a greasemonkey script that changes the word "hack" to the string of your choice.

I would like to give you some advice on humor, sir. While I'm not the type to know Javascript and Greasemonkeying off the top of my head, it seems to me that you might. Therefore, it is funnier if you actually do it. This concept can be key to efficient comedy and it seems to me that if you knew the basics of Greasemonkeying you could whip up such a script in a few minutes. Null and void this section of the comment if doing such Greasemonkeying would actually take you, like it would take me, more than a few minutes' effort.

Finally, sex is totally hax and unless this evolves into an epic longboat journey or Jesus himself restores the IMG tag to this thread, I judge this the worst Metatalk thread ever. Seriously, you reset the days-between-Metatalk-posts for this?

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:38:14 -0800

Therefore, it is funnier if you actually do it.

You misspelled "more time consuming". I know from time-consuming jokes, but it's been a busy night.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:44:02 -0800

Remember that scene in "Miami Blues" where the fat pawnshop lady hacks off Alec Baldwin's fingers with a machete? That sort of signaled the beginning of the end for his character. It ain't over 'till the fat lady hacks off a Baldwin's digits.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:44:15 -0800

Well, that example is more like it. We must all sacrifice our time, health, safety, and dignity for comedy as we are able to.

By: sunshinesky

sunshinesky — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:59:14 -0800

Worst MeTa thread?! Sweet! Unfortunately for me, I'm pretty sure there are plenty of lame threads on par with mine.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:03:47 -0800

I don't think it's all that bad of a MeTa thread. It can be useful to throw a light on forms of slang usage that has become cliched.

By: jtron

jtron — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:10:15 -0800

Yes, we all loved the movie but for Jod's sake, you can't hack sex.

You misspelled Zod.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:18:36 -0800

you can't hack sex

Tell it to the mohels, pal.

*Shifts uncomfortably at the mere thought*

By: Skorgu

Skorgu — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:36:42 -0800

Pfft, your ask was fine sunshinesky.

Wall-E made me miss the Mutant/Malor Deathmatch. What a day!

By: Skorgu

Skorgu — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:37:52 -0800

You know what I meant.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:39:08 -0800

Maybe you cant hack sex.

MetaTalk: Where the mods come out to sweep-kick in you in the back of the knee, while onlookers favorite it. Nice.

By: sunshinesky

sunshinesky — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:01:46 -0800

I have to say that I didn't expect such a quick draw from a mod. They usually seem so darn wholesome and kind. Good show, this wasn't such a bad thread afterall!

By: amyms

amyms — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:07:01 -0800

Isn't a "hack" a taxi cab driver? Why do so many people have sexual fantasies about taxi cab drivers?

By: davejay

davejay — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:07:33 -0800

"hack my bunghole"

From the makers of Pimp My Ride? That'd be a fantastic show...to poop on.

By: davejay

davejay — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:08:43 -0800

Sunshinesky has a point, Jessamyn; you pretty much could have closed the thread after your comment, deleted 0xFCAF's comment, and everyone would have been better off for it.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:14:07 -0800

Oh man not this again. I think I've run out of snarky and facetious "hack" comments to make, I used them all up.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:35:28 -0800

I'm hacking you right now and you don't even know it.

By: davejay

davejay — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:37:31 -0800

I KNOW IT

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:49:19 -0800

Yes, we all loved the movie but for Jod's sake, you can't hack sex.

I'll prove you wrong in 15 minutes or less, and I might not even have to touch you.¹

*flexes Tantra muscles, crackling with energy*

¹ Availability of offer depends on mutally acceptable levels of attraction, alignment of the planets, your own ability and experience, etc, etc.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:08:43 -0800

You can't hack sex, but you can hex sacks.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:24:28 -0800

That'd be a fantastic show...to poop on.

I'm not quite getting your pitch here, davejay. Are you saying that the weekly hack will result in the transformation of the guest bunghole into something resembling a Play Doh Fun Factory, and they'd then be expected to show off their creativity and artistic talent by building something out of the extruded shapes in the poop?

It doesn't sound like the kind of thing that our network would be interested in, but it's definitely edgy and might be more suited to one of the youth-oriented networks like MTV or Nickleodeon.

You might want to try shooting a pilot and putting it up on YouTube to see what kind of audience and feedback it gets before you pitch the idea again. Because it's kind of radical, you know? But there are definitely a whole bunch of advertisers who could be interested in a niche show like this: Depends, Ex-Lax, some butt plug people, etc.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:11:05 -0800

Are you saying that the weekly hack will result in the transformation of the guest bunghole into something resembling a Play Doh Fun Factory, and they'd then be expected to show off their creativity and artistic talent by building something out of the extruded shapes in the poop?

I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT I ALREADY HAVE PRIOR ART AND A PATENT APPLICATION ON THIS AND THAT YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM MY ATTORNEY IN THE MORNING.

Fuck, it's Saturday, isn't it?

FINE THEN FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING!

Ask about our special goatse.cx package. It's totally meta. Inserts are available in a entire range of twenty-four sizes from "Have you ever been in a Turkish Prison?" to "Dear God, what is that thing!? And why did I park my 747 in it!?"

Once you have the appropriate sized insert, you can choose from hundreds of extrusion templates to use with it. Yes, you too can shit rainbows and unicorns! Collect them all!

By: davejay

davejay — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:20:50 -0800

[rim shot]

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:26:29 -0800

Use of the word "hack" is up there with "Legos" around here in annoyance terms. It's spelt Lagos FFS.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:31:17 -0800

Hu hu hu hac hac haaack!

(sorry, furball)

By: taz

taz — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:13:19 -0800

I Can Hax Secks?

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:51:10 -0800

Isn't a "hack" a taxi cab driver?

Not unless the cab is the driver.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:58:56 -0800

My fingers flew in a flurry of furious activity. It'd taken all evening to find a box I thought was adequately vulnerable. A quick port scan showed some interesting possibilities; and not just the obvious ones. With deft keystrokes, I made some progress towards getting to root, but it was slow and frustrating. Since I wasn't having any luck, I decided to check some forums to see if I could find other's reports of exploits.

Following a few suggestions, first I tried impressing her with my smarts. But she just wouldn't respond to any kind of dictionary attack, even foreign ones. Another veteran suggested I go for the backdoor. I'd heard about that before, that on some systems it was actually the best way in. But while I found a nice backdoor on this box, I was unable to gain access.

With faint traces of dawn streaming through my window shades, I popped the top on another Mountain Dew. I was going to master this system no matter how long it took.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:24:58 -0800

I was going to master this system no matter how long it took.

Time to resort to a brute force attack, obviously.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:34:34 -0800

Where the mods come out to sweep-kick in you in the back of the knee, while onlookers favorite it. Nice.

Just imagine being someone who tries to discreetly check out a self-help book from her library.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:55:13 -0800

but for Jod's sake, you can't hack sex.

Jod vehemently disagrees.

By: Toekneesan

Toekneesan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:40:19 -0800

Heck, sax.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:58:45 -0800

Burhanistan, I strongly approve of your Baldwin-hacking memory. Is there some sort of site tool that will allow me to indicate my approval and/or allow me to find your comment later, should I wish to peruse it again?

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:28:46 -0800

There is a Jod! Unfortunately, I just can't hack Latvian.

By: box

box — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:35:07 -0800

Hackety Sex! (runs around like Benny Hill)

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:02:27 -0800

There is a Jod! Unfortunately, I just can't hack Latvian.

And Jod turns out to be an alternate name for Velns, who "was a demon. He was married to Ragana. In many stories, the evil Velns was stupid and simply outwitted by shepherds and small boys." Now, there's a great way to insult somebody safely (unless, of course, they're Lativian): "Sure, Velns!"

From the same article:

Not only is Easter called Lieldienas, but the pussy willow has supplanted the palm frond in Christian symbolism. Palm Sunday is Pūpolsvētdiena, literally, Pussy Willow Sunday, and little children are awoken that morning by the ritualistic swats of a willow branch and the exclamation, "Apaļš kā pūpols, apaļš kā pūpols, apaļš kā pūpols!" ("Round like (the catkins of) a pussy willow!")

I leave the jokes to others.

By: Science!

Science! — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:18:40 -0800

Here you go, anti-hacks for life.

I only read one entry, and it was pretty unreadable.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:44:29 -0800

Needs more Rollerblades.

By: empath

empath — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:53:21 -0800

I was going to master this system no matter how long it took.

Any system that allows easy access is probably infested with viruses anyway.

By: empath

empath — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:53:41 -0800

(flagged as sexist)

By: WPW

WPW — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:22:45 -0800

You know what I hate? The verb "curate". It used to have a simple, limited meaning, now it's used everywhere. I think people think it sounds somehow brainier and more academic and creative than simply compiling, editing, or sponsoring something. Anyway, I'll watch out for some arsewitted designer curating sex with their girlfriend or boyfriend. Because it will happen.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:25:25 -0800

So your complaint is basically about a Curate Overload?

By: everichon

everichon — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:35:36 -0800

Have you read O'Reilly's Hacking The Curate? It's scandalous.

By: WPW

WPW — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:35:53 -0800

Badum, tish.

By: box

box — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:39:05 -0800

You know what I hate? People not using turn signals.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:39:35 -0800

I'd hack that.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:58:53 -0800

I tried to hack sex. The result where initially vigorous and satisfying, but, right at the climactic moment, my partner kicked very hard, sending my testicles flying in the air. As an autonomic response, my own legs kicked forward, coincidentally catching my testes as they began their downward trajectory, and sending them flying again. Thinking this was part of the plan, my partner watched my bells descend again, and kicked them into the air as they neared the floor. This continued for several minutes.

Yes, friends, I was a victim of hacky sack.

Let this be a warning to all of you.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:59:01 -0800

I like my meat curated and slow-cooked.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:01:09 -0800

my partner watched my bells descend again

Well, there's your problem. Carillons and sex just don't mix.

By: everichon

everichon — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:07:20 -0800

Carillons and sex just don't mix.

I don't feel fully supported in my lifestyle, here.

By: Dreamghost

Dreamghost — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:07:33 -0800

EMACS > Vi

By: everichon

everichon — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:11:55 -0800

EMACS > Vi

A succinct comparison of resource usage.

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:16:52 -0800

or of misalphabetization

By: suedehead

suedehead — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:19:30 -0800

overcocking?

By: Justinian

Justinian — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:40:27 -0800

Sure, a meta callout for this is kind of lame, but using the word "hacks" when you mean "tips" ("I need sex tips, please...") is like hanging a sign around your neck saying "HIPSTER DOOFUS" or, perhaps, "VIRGIN".

By: nowonmai

nowonmai — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:58:37 -0800

Hanging a sign around your neck saying "HIPSTER DOOFUS OR PERHAPS VIRGIN" would totally get you laid. It's a great hack for anyone wishing to curate sexual encounters!

By: [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST]

[NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:02:49 -0800

You are not "hacking" sex by figuring out how to do it well. You are just having sex the way it's meant to be had.

It would count as a hack if, say, we used sex for purely reproductive purposes, and you wanted to repurpose the act to get/give insane physical pleasure out of it. But striving for a basic level of competence in an area that is considered well-traveled and common does not make you hacker. It makes you a remedial student.

By: everichon

everichon — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:04:30 -0800

using the word "hacks" when you mean "tips"

I don't know Gina Trapani, she certainly seems like a very nice person from her blog persona, but damn if there isn't a specific circle of hell prepared for her for aiding in the propagation of this extremely grating usage.

Disclaimer: I really am struck by how intelligent and helpful and non-snarky her LH presence is. That she's Gawker Media is kind of funny.

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:05:17 -0800

'ack.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:12:36 -0800

Have you read O'Reilly's Hacking The Curate? It's scandalous.

Is that a sequel to Curating the Hack? I recommend that to everyone with the poster's sensitivities.

By: dawson

dawson — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:22:01 -0800

sex can be pretty hacking even without any effort, as much as one (or more) can 'sex' w/o effort.

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:06:48 -0800

I never saw such hacks!

You can take all your hacks and pack 'em up and go to Hackensack (located between Teaneck and Lodi in the 'silly names' part of New Jersey), or Hackney (but that would be a rather hackneyed thing to do).

I'm just sorry somebody beat me to "hacking cough" (which I actually woke up with today) and "I'd hack it" (which I did NOT).

note: Everyone needs a hack.

By: adipocere

adipocere — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:28:53 -0800

I consider this yet more painful fallout from the unremarked-upon retconning of hacker to cracker whenever the former term could have been viewed in an illegal or pejorative manner. No, really. Hacking, by the word entered the public usage in the 80's as it relates to computers, originally was about the subversion of institutional systems for personal use. Forget the MIT building hacking, nobody remembers that, apparently. Now the 90's roll in, and suddenly the nerds figure they need better PR. Enter cracker, which sounds like a safe-cracker, and suddenly you have a brand new way to differentiate white hates from black hats. Suddenly, hackers are supposedly helpful. They point out your security flaws. They're tirelessly working to make better widgets so you can get your commercial crap mailed to you faster, and rather than being nasty and digging through your email; they're cuddly, if slightly socially clueless and desperate to please. And, well, it's quite easy to insist that it was never any other way. Grep webpages with the outdated terminology and replace it wherever it appears. Eric S. Raymond has definitely upgraded our chocolate ration here.

In the late eighties, when we had thick stacks of white-and-green striped printouts of everyone's passwords, we referred to the brute-forcing of passwords as cracking (and that was the only time it was used), but everything else we did prowling about where we were not supposed to be was hacking. Notice how it's a very electronic version of the MIT building usage. Nobody we talked to ever used anything different. Suddenly, this cracker word shows up and we all had a WTF? moment while we realized this was strictly a public relations move.

But because not everyone has bought into it, at least at a conscious level, hack has broken out into the public as a sloppy hybrid of the two usages, a way to improve things, but somewhat selfishly, and still with this kind of secret shortcut mentality. I don't want to stand in line with everyone else, I want to hack my way to a faster solution. Geez, this is hard work, I should hack out something fast. I don't want to spend months learning how to make love to this one person, where's that secret exploit that all women have? There's a buffer overrun in her G-spot that makes her dump core, just overload her inputs and watch the output freak out.

Unintended consequences appear when you mess with anything, even language, and HAX! is one of them.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:45:15 -0800

When I was a choirboy, the parish curate hacked my bunghole.

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:53:46 -0800

you can't hack sex

P.J. O'Rourke would like to disagree with you.

How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:17:38 -0800

Sigh… Here you go, TheOnlyCoolTim (or maybe cortex or WPW).

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:00:29 -0800

When I was a choirboy, the parish curate hacked my bunghole.

To be pedantic, that was more cracking than hacking.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:29:56 -0800

I went to film school, so I got to know a lot of fucking hacks.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:53:38 -0800

Hey kids! Parents strict about cussing? Try "heck"—the hell hack!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:13:35 -0800

I consider this yet more painful fallout from the unremarked-upon retconning of hacker to cracker whenever the former term could have been viewed in an illegal or pejorative manner.

Well, they tried that but it never really succeeded.

By: box

box — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:31:13 -0800

I blame David Lowery.

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:45:21 -0800

I am looking for ways to pop popcorn besides the traditional ways. Links?

By: sunshinesky

sunshinesky — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:54:05 -0800

you asked

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:46:37 -0800

"you people"?

Racist.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:25:11 -0800

Why do I feel like this is all going to lead to the Dr. Demento favorite "Silicon Valley Guy?"

By: m0nm0n

m0nm0n — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:05:18 -0800

While we're at it, I hate the word "repurpose." Snark, please?

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:38:32 -0800

[NOT HACKIST]

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:41:08 -0800

Well, they tried that but it never really succeeded.

Maybe they should have described the effort as "hacking." That seems to be more popular then "retconning."

By: jayder

jayder — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:08:00 -0800

I think the more pressing issue is getting people here to stop pimping things.

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:09:29 -0800

This thread arouses me.

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:32:12 -0800

Yeah, I don't like the sound of Pimp Mom's Clambook at all.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:02:51 -0800

Oh my.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:07:43 -0800

Oh, and hattifattener? You rock.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:03:00 -0800

And Jod turns out to be an alternate name for Velns, who "was a demon. He was married to Ragana. In many stories, the evil Velns was stupid and simply outwitted by shepherds and small boys." And Jod turns out to be an alternate name for Velns, who "was a demon. He was married to Ragana. In many stories, the evil Velns was stupid and simply outwitted by shepherds and small boys." Now, there's a great way to insult somebody safely (unless, of course, they're Latvian): "Sure, Velns!"

I'll admit I don't know much about the old mythology, but in the vernacular, "Velns" simply means (the) devil, and Ragana means witch.

"Sure, velns" would be taken as "Yeh, right, you devil"

Tidbit: "Lai velns tevi parauj" (may the devil devour you) is the Latvian equivalent of "break a leg"

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:00:31 -0800

"hack my bunghole"

From the makers of Pimp My Ride? That'd be a fantastic show...to poop on.

I'm picturing goatse, except with antique French doors and some nice lace curtains.

As for tubgirl...well, I think stainless steel would be the way to go.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:04:14 -0800

Burhanistan: "...it's interesting to see how computer use has changed our entire metaphorical outlook..."

This is the worst part of this entire thread. The idea that somehow the word "hack" sprung from nothingness to mean "to break into a computer system" (or depending on who you ask simply "to play with a computer for its own sake") is not only inaccurate, but also silly on its very face. It only works if you ignore the long-extant uses of the word hack as in "Cortex is a hack writer" or "I'll take a hack at explaining this to you".

The Jargon File high-level definition of hack ("an appropriate application of ingenuity") shows how (potentially) appropriate the verb is to sex, sandwiches, resume writing, umbrella design, coffee filter origami, or really anything else a person cares to do. Asking askers to abandon the word is like forcing all questions to be written without the letter E: arbitrary, pointless, and distracting from the point of AskMe.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:26:54 -0800

Maybe, but people are using it now in reference to computer "hacking". Common usage generally trumps etymology (see "anti-semitism).

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:02:52 -0800

Yes, and according to this thread, people also use it in reference to sex "hacking". A specific use doesn't trump general meaning (see "run").

By: Arturus

Arturus — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:39:45 -0800

Hacking sex.