Re: virus: what do we call them?

psypher (overload@fastmail.ca)
Mon, 10 May 1999 10:14:35 -0400 (EDT)

...you provided an opportunity, so I hade to propagate this meme. (one of the great ones imho)

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrave.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum gree,
And stood awhile in thought

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrave. 

> My Maxims outgun your squirt pistols.... could it what we would. I
> would suggest that many of the terms being bandied here carry
> non-Virian shades of meaning which will taint the field for one
> group or another. Hmmm, bandied <=> bandersnatch... there is a
> nice neutral term. And if anyone gets too iffy about a particular
> maxim, then they can be positively frumious!

> 
> TheHermit
>

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-virus@lucifer.com
>> [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
>> Of Joe E. Dees
>> Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 2:28 AM
>> To: virus@lucifer.com
>> Subject: Re: virus: what do we call them?
>>
>>


>> Date sent:      	Mon, 10 May 1999 00:00:37 -0700

>> From:           	KMO <kmo@c-realm.com>

>> Organization:   	C-Realm

>> To:             	virus@lucifer.com

>> Subject:        	Re: virus: what do we call them?

>> Send reply to:  	virus@lucifer.com

>>


>> >

>> >

>> > "Joe E. Dees" wrote:

>> >

>> > > I forgot to mention axioms; this isn't TOO mathematical, and

>> > > maybe postulates (which might be).

>> >

>> > I LIKE "postulates."

>> >

>> > -KMO
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?db=web1913&term=Post
>> ulate&config=define
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Postulate \Pos"tu*late\, n. [L.
>> postulatum a
>> > demand,
>> > request, prop. p. p. of postulare
>> to demand,
>> > prob. a
>> > dim. of poscere to demand, prob.
>> for porcscere;
>> > akin to
>> > G. forschen to search,
>> investigate, Skr. prach
>> > to ask,
>> > and L. precari to pray: cf. F.
>> postulat. See
>> > Pray.] 1.
>> > Something demanded or asserted;
>> especially, a
>> > position or supposition assumed
>> without proof,
>> > or one
>> > which is considered as
>> self-evident; a truth to
>> > which
>> > assent may be demanded or
>> challenged, without
>> > argument or evidence.
>> >
>> > 2. (Geom.) The enunciation of a
>> self-evident
>> > problem,
>> > in distinction from an axiom, which
> is the > > enunciation


>> >                          of a self-evident theorem.

>> >

>> >                          The distinction between a postulate

> and an > > axiom lies


>> >                          in this, -- that the latter is
>> admitted to be
>> > self-evident,
>> > while the former may be agreed
>> upon between two
>> >
>> > reasoners, and admitted by both, but
> not as > >                          proposition which it would be
> impossible to > > deny.


>> >                          --Eng. Cyc.

>> >                                                   Source:

> Webster's > > Revised Unabridged Dictionary

>> >
>> I suppose "level-3'ers" could then consider themselves postulants
>> (or at least posturers! ;~)
>>
>>
>>
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