Thank you for your help, Mitchell. And I still got a bunch of questions. Anybody knows the anwer please reply. Every Chinese speaking reader and I will...
Sphincter--- they are muscles, such as the, um, anus, and the stomach and maybe some other places that control the movement of food. A circular muscle that...
... Tail pipe - Spincter = A ringlike muscle that normally maintains constriction of a body passage or orifice and that relaxes as required by normal...
No, the Deliverator had jet engines if I remeber correctly--- DEMOCRACY WHISKEY SEXY!!! ... I've stopped 17,629 spam messages. You can too! One month FREE spam...
... K-Tel was a 1970s company that sold very cheap albums. http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Music/KTel.asp Here it's just an adjective meaning cheap, discount....
Thank you guys! Your answers are really very helpful. If any of you would like to visit Beijing when we go out of the shadow of SARS, I will be very happy to...
Hope I can make it to Beijing one day... ... Well, the broad meaning is: he will have to draw his sword eventually, he has time to do it now, so he does it...
Kuhn Yuanhong, I apologize in advance, I live in one room and my sister moved in and contrary to stereo types she is the chaotic one and now I can't find...
Mitch, OK so crete is concrete, I was in a different frame of reference..I still don't recall the term Wilson for wipeout. I have heard bumping to mean cool...
Mitch, OK so crete is concrete, I was in a different frame of reference..I still don't recall the term Wilson for wipeout. I have heard bumping to mean cool...
... I guess it's the sound of a cash register or maybe even a slot machine. Anyway, you can see the official Oxford English Dictionary take on the word here: ...
Yeah about bump I remember hearing it really in reference to parties, maybe loud music was the reason..... Brian Wilson did lead a sad life but that was fairly...
PS could Wilson be a reference to a character in a movie or a TV series? As I'm thinking about it Maybe Mr. Wilson from Dennis the Menace or something of that...
... Hey, well done! http://www.sleestak.net/articles/danhailey/ One time I was thinking I would go up for a frontside air. Well, I was leaning back just a...
Dude, Where do you find these URLs? although dated 2002 which is well after Gibson's use. But maybe for the purpose of the narrative he was explaining a term...
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Thank you Mitchell and Josef. Josef, where do you live in Far East? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar...
Hi Yuanhong, I live in the city of angels, aka, Bangkok. unfortunately like any big city haven't met any Angels, particularly when you combine that with the...
Hi, Josef, Reading your mail really broadens my knowledge of the world around. The only foreign country I have been is Malaysia. I went there on business...
First of all, I'd just like to say how much I enjoyed the discussion of slang terms -- supposedly for Yuaghong, but of great benefit to many of the rest of us...
...and so after re-reading SnowCrash, I'm re-reading The Diamond Age. Firstly, I noticed that M-80 got a mention early on, so Yuanhong, you already have a...
Morton Chalom said ... That's a popular idea, but I don't think there's any evidence for this in Snow Crash. ... You mean Kongbucks? That's evidently the...
another question the last sentence of Snowcrash "yeah, home seems about right." Is Y.T. means that go home is quite a good idea or anything else. What does the...
... Oh, *Kongbucks*... that makes more sense. Sorry, in my prior email I should have admitted that I am listening to the unabridged audio versions of the...
Morton Chalom said ... Well, they're not "weapons of mass destruction". :) Actually, to make a nuke you need radioactive elements like uranium (even a fusion...
I downloaded an eBook of Snow Crash off Kazaa (yes, I intend to buy the book, but I just want to be able to read it on my PocketPC) and the one time Hiro's...
That's the name in my copy of the book. I never knew it generated any discussion, much less controversy. ... From: fimeriotuzit To: snowcrash@yahoogroups.com ...
Everyone else I've seen cites Hiroaki as the name. Please, those whose copies have either way, stand up and be counted. This is some kind of unseen ...
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