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@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
I don't get why people, even those who should know better, mix up slash and backslash. I always ask them "If I tell you to write down on paper 'cat slash dog' are you going to ever write \ ?" I'm not sure what that's about.
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@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
I don't get why people, even those who should know better, mix up slash and backslash. I always ask them "If I tell you to write down on paper 'cat slash dog' are you going to ever write \ ?" I'm not sure what that's about.
Pops and I still call a forward slash (/) the switch. Old DOS lingo that just stuck with us through the years.
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@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
I don't get why people, even those who should know better, mix up slash and backslash. I always ask them "If I tell you to write down on paper 'cat slash dog' are you going to ever write \ ?" I'm not sure what that's about.
Pops and I still call a forward slash (/) the switch. Old DOS lingo that just stuck with us through the years.
I still call it the slash, you know, from typewriter days.
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Or backslash is by the backspace
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A guy I used to work with used to call < and > "chicken lips right" and "chicken lips left". It was used in the terminal on Ericcson AXE Telco switches for the commands. Always gave me a chuckle.
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@brandon220 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
A guy I used to work with used to call < and > "chicken lips right" and "chicken lips left". It was used in the terminal on Ericcson AXE Telco switches for the commands. Always gave me a chuckle.
Is = two slices of bread? Or \ ad / chicken wings?
P.S. I'm hungry
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@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Then outsources to India, pays 10x as much, but still claims he got a really good deal and couldn't afford that old IT guy always demanding things like "working equipment" and money for "licenses".
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@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@brandon220 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
A guy I used to work with used to call < and > "chicken lips right" and "chicken lips left". It was used in the terminal on Ericcson AXE Telco switches for the commands. Always gave me a chuckle.
Is = two slices of bread? Or \ ad / chicken wings?
P.S. I'm hungry
^\ /^ There's you some chicken wings...
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