Which one of these explanations is true? was Re: Foresight Recon?

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 13:50:44 MDT

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    On Wed, 14 May 2003 23:23:23 -0700, spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:

    > What is the etymology of the term "squicked"?

    "Squick" appears to have originated at MIT, where it was supposedly an
    onomatopoetic word, imitative of the frictional sound made when a human
    penis engages in frottage of an exposed human brain. I believe the word was
    used in those circles as an ejaculation, i.e. when working on hard
    problems: "Grind, grind, squick, squick."

    It attained a great deal of currency online in the early 1990s on Usenet's
    alt.sex.bondage newsgroup, where it took on the meaning of visceral
    distaste/turnoff/"your kink is not OK". Ex.: "I am squicked by <x>", "You
    squicked me", and the singleton (often mock) safeword "SQUICK!".

    > If lightning never strikes in the same place
    > twice, and your lightning rod gets a hit, should
    > you throw it away? Do you need to get a new one
    > to replace it? How do the later lightning
    > bolts know which places are already taken?

    You do need to throw it away. If you replace it, it counts as a new place.
    That's too risky. The later storms use a process known as "lightning
    calculation" to determine where not to hit.

    > What is the origin of the term etymology?

    > What was the first game ever invented? What
    > did people play before that?

    The first game ever invented was "am I really going to kill you or not?"
    Before that, people just played dumb.

    > If a watched pot never boils, and mass-energy
    > is a conserved quantity, into what form does the
    > energy of the fire under a watched pot go? Could
    > you use a pair of fake eyes to fool the pot into
    > thinking it is being watched?

    The energy goes into producing watches. Einsteinian mass-energy equivalence
    means it takes a very long time for an actual (visible to the naked eye)
    watch to manfest. Which is good, because past that point it can go into
    over-unity feedback.

    Fooling pot with fake eyes isn't that easy; pot does make some people
    paranoid, but it tends to be mellow itself.

    > In a society that gets all squicked and starts
    > passing laws forbidding teens from their tongues
    > surgically split, why do we routinely whack off the
    > tip of the newborn's penis? Presumably against
    > the infant's will?

    Because it's no skin off the adults' nose.

    Sorry I missed the party.

    MMB

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