Jonn
On 1/24/06, John O'Laughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quackle might seem nearer to the random end of the spectrum. Why "Quackle"? Partly because it's OSW-only. I prefer Sowpods, and sometimes I tend to rub people's noses in it. Do I have some kind of deal with ducks and duck calls? Yes, a little bit. It's an inside joke (which explanation will not make any funnier) among my non-Scrabble friends, stemming from a 1998 conference call in which someone (not me) ranted boringly about Linux while unintentionally sounding like a duck. "Kwak" (spelled so) immediately became adjective, noun, and verb referring to a certain kind of geekiness not specific to the typical geek culture of video games, comic books, science fiction, or for that matter, Linux. It's far more generally any form of obsession, pedantry, or train spotting (holy crap, TRAINSPOTTERISH in Collins!). A beerkwak doesn't just drink beer, he brews it, knows everything there is to know about it, and rarely tires of talking on the subject. An audiokwak doesn't buy expensive speakers or amplifiers, he builds them, and probably feels sorry for people who don't, because they're either listening to crappy speakers or throwing money away. And so the scrabkwak doesn't simply play Scrabble, he plays in Scrabble tournaments, writes Scrabble programs, types long emails about Scrabble tournaments and Scrabble programs, and kwakKwwaaaakKWAAKWAAK.
It's funny to me and it was mine to name. Sorry.
John
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