Alex White wrote:
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Non ex transverso sed deorsum

I didn't know what the Latin meant so I looked it up.

"Latin for 'down not across'. The official motto of sysadmins everywhere."

> Down, not across
>
> The mantra and/or motto of the BOFH tribe, as well as suicidally depressed
> individuals everywhere. The phrase refers to how one should apply a 
razorblade to
> one's wrist to achieve best results. In this case, Down, not across refers to
> slicing parallel to your wrist as to more fully evacuate blood from the body.
> Exercising the blade perpendicular to the wrist will take longer to die from, 
and
> also tends to sever important tendons, making it very hard to grasp the razor.

Nice :-)

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Michael Lake
Computational Research Support Unit
Science Faculty, UTS
Ph: 9514 2238



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