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by ChuckMcM
3292 days ago
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In college when my future mother-in-law called to ask if I knew where her daughter was I absently replied "Just a sec, let me finger[1] her." It wasn't until the extended silence on the line did it occur to me that a my use of jargon may have been misinterpreted. [1] For you who don't know, the finger(1) command and protocol would return you the status of someone logged in and what they were working on (if they had set their status). Sort of like Google Chat used to do before they ruined it. |
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I have a similar story about, on request, describing the sorts of day-to-day things I then did to a family member who doesn't have a conception of what "internet companies" do.
It involved databases and the phrase "take a dump".