You know... I can't recall what we called them... we very very rarely needed them. hmmm... It's only been 10 years and I'm blanking it out. All the coax and triax cable we used, used male ends, so not much need. Connectors in a cable run were bad form, really. We avoided them as much as possible to minimize chance of failure. Which of course, meant that we occasionally had these horribly long, big triax cables running to cameras, at venues like golf courses. hand winding them onto spools after the broadcast, without twisting the core was a huge pain. Now they use RF systems, with the cables only running to a centralized group of transmitter/receivers for the video signal and return audio/intercom to the cameraman's headset
We used male female 90 degree elbows in tight equipment racks a lot. We, of course, called them elbow couplings. Never thought about the linguistic connotations at the time. duh. well at least until the "incident". the 1st part of wikipedia's explanation hits the nail on the head. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_of_connectors_and_fasteners On 2010-08-09, at 7:34 PM, Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 07:01:17PM -0500, S/V Sarks wrote: >> >> Cables have female and male connectors.. and I needed a quick way to >> connect 2 video cables together.... female to female.... which was >> commonly called a "lesbian" > > Heh. We used to call those "gender-benders". Hadn't heard the other > version. > > Now I'm curious: what did you call the male-to-male version? A number of > non-politically-correct options come to mind... :) > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
