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eyechart
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

3575 Posts

Posted - 2004-09-30 : 19:42:27
"the I don't speak nerd" quote from another thread got me thinking about barbara billingsly and how she spoke jive in airplane.

I remembered this website that translates english to jive (just like babblefish). btw, It's fun to cut and paste management-speak into the translator.


http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~eclectic/toys/jive.html



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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2052 Posts

Posted - 2004-10-01 : 05:11:12
This is brilliant thanks for the link. I put my quiz through [url]http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40565[/url] and got:-

I have some theory dat 'geeks' have da damn same likess an' dislikes so's I've
devised some quiz, da mo' points yo' ass git da damn mo' o' some geek yo' ass
be considered t' be

Da numba' in backets at da damn fat-lady o' aich statement be da damn numba' o'
points yo' ass gain o' lose 4 some positive answa' t'aich quesshun

1) 4 aich doodad yo' ass have at crib (down low, +1)
2) If yo' ass have some network at crib (down low, +1) if it be wireless git
anotha' anotha' point 4 aich access point yo' ass have 3) 4 aich O-S yo' ass
have runnin' at crib (down low, +1) (down low, includin' no in bits) (down low,
if no o' dese-he'ah wuz built by yo' ass git some 'estra point 4 aich one) 4)
aich serva' O-S gits +2
5) 4 aich xerox o' S-Q-fuckin'-L Serva' yo' ass have at crib (down low, +2), if
it be some legal xerox (down low, +4) 6) 4 aich ebony T Shirt yo' ass possess
(down low, + 1)
7) 4 aich pair o' (down low, non designa' ) Jains yo' ass own (down low, +1) 8)
4 aich Rock/Haivy metal band yo' ass have seen live (down low, +2) 9) 4 aich
goat yo' ass kissed since yo' ass wuz some teenaga' (down low, -1) an' if she
neva' jived t' yo' ass again (down low, +1) 10) 4 o' aich baby yo' ass have had
(down low, -1)
unless they lasted less dan some week in which case (down low, +1) 11) 4 aich
P-D-fuckin'-A yo' ass have eva' owned
12) 4 aich smartphone yo' ass have eva' owned
13) If yo' ass synch yo' ass smartphone t' yo' P-D-fuckin'-A (down low, +1) an'
if yo' ass 'esploit Bluetoot' t' do it (down low, +2) 14) One point 4 aich
level o' R-A-I-fuckin'-D yo' ass have on aich crib doodad 15) 4 aich console
dat yo' ass have eva' owned (down low, +1)
16) if yo' ass play multiplaya' games (down low, +1)
17) If yo' ass eyeball Sci-fi (down low, +2)

I think mah sco' be well into da 30's o' possibly higha'. Anyone else prepared
t'own down?


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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master

11752 Posts

Posted - 2004-10-01 : 06:37:43
simply incredible.

Go with the flow & have fun! Else fight the flow
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kselvia
Aged Yak Warrior

526 Posts

Posted - 2004-10-01 : 11:19:10
Check this out:

http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=jive&url=http://www.sqlteam.com

Hmm Snitz does not want to format that link correctly. I guess you will have to copy and paste it manually.
--Ken
I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.
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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2052 Posts

Posted - 2004-10-01 : 19:13:39
That's even better, any way I can pass our intranet pages through it?

steve

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Ledell
SQL NASCAR Parsing Chick

107 Posts

Posted - 2004-10-04 : 13:59:22
I should've put my post for the "DBA Gangsta" pic thru there before submitting! LOL

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Got some code from Rob. Can anyone help?
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