-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 March 2003 9:27 pm, Jay Vollmer wrote:
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 10:51 pm, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Forgive me but I must ask you what the words in your sig are all about?
TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE
This is an example of "Newspeak" as described in Eric Blair's classic novel, "Nineteen Eighty-four."
Errrr.... you made me look on that one -- I had always known it to be by George Orwell, never heard of this "blair" character, but appearently Blair is a pseudonym that Orwell used -- chalk that up to "learning something today" [or history rewritten ;) ]
Basically, it says; "The text above refers to unsavory thoughts and/or ideas which border on the criminally insane, and should be entirely ignored."
Hmmm... if I follow the words and translation, "unsavory thoughts" == SELFTHINK == "thinking for one's self". Considering what I understand the storyline to be, I can see how that conclusion would be reached [I never actually read the book, and only saw the tail end of a movie made from the book, but I've heard enough about it from other sources & references that this is easy to infer] - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+eCTQV/YHUqq2SwsRAkEdAKCRmAi5xHjCyXFsxDgofwqgaDshyACZASyu YCTZr04TZQh1/jNkgyHaDQI= =ERMx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----