On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:53:11AM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> Heard on freenet IRC earlier today:
>
> <sanity> Bold Magazine (LA hollywood gozzip rag) : June : p44
> <sanity> Headline: "Young, Single, Rich!" Subhead: "L.A.'s hottest
> millionaire power players."
> <sanity> #2 - Ian "Infoanarchist" Clarke
> <sanity> "How about 24-year-old Ian Clarke?...
> <sanity> ...with dark good looks reminiscent of a young Sean Connery (!)...
> <sanity> ...That's Clarke, Ian Clarke....
> <sanity> goes against *everything* I stand for
> <sanity> sickening
> <agl> but very funny
> <sanity> #1 is someone I have never heard of
> <sanity> but I am ahead of loads of other famous baseball players and stuff
> <agl> cut it out and keep it in your wallet for when you are very drunkenly
> chatting some girl up ;)
>
> This evokes mental images of a wedding scene.
> Imagine this...
>
> Founder of Freenet, information anarchist Ian Clarke, was secretly married
> this week.
> For security reasons, the identity of the bride has been powerfully
> encrypted.
> Vows were exchanged via secure SSL links and inserted into Freenet via
> hashed keys.
> According to rumours, the couple sped off to their honeymoon location in
> virtual reality.
>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sycophant \Syc"o*phant\, n.
1. An informer; a talebearer. [Obs.] ``Accusing sycophants,
of all men, did best sort to his nature.'' --Sir P. Sidney.
2. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially,
a flatterer of princes and great men.
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