pwned

the chips are down

 

I wish someone would. I still don't understand what "pwned"[1] means.
I suppose I must officially be old or unhip. Or both.

So shouldn't it be "the french fries are down"?

[1] Or any other of these geeky phrases

 

Not just me then. Is Wessie trying to be cool, hip, enigmatic, or is
he just being unintentionally obscure?

 

There's a web site for people like you:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned

 

Freedom Fries, surely.

 

You *really* should have got it, being as you're in the food industry
and all:
http://www.mccain.com/Pages/Home.aspx

 

Isn't TOG a tinned food person.

Chips in tins... it's the future!

 

Why would you want to?

 

I feel left out.

 

Never mind. Discover "qwned" and be ahead of the game.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=qwned

 

Or even have the last word with "zwned"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zwned

 

0xffwned is the logical conclusion for this nonsensical brinkmanship,
surely.

 

I see your "zwned", and raise you: "~wned"

Pronunciation is left as an exercise for the reader.

 

0xffwned!

 

Curses, U+10FFFFwned.

 

Hah!

*smug*

 

You have a woman's encoding, sir.

 

It's all a bit moot anyway; isn't nntp meant to be ASCII only, strictly
speaking?

 

see Eddie's post

 

I do indeed; I didn't think I needed to be that pedantic.

Aren't the Content-* headers part of the NNTP standard now?