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To: Jrabbit
sock puppet n.

[Usenet: from the act of placing a sock over your hand and talking to it and pretending it's talking back] In Usenet parlance, a pseudo through which the puppeteer posts follow-ups to their own original message to give the appearance that a number of people support the views held in the original message.

463 posted on 07/26/2002 6:38:03 PM PDT by strela
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To: strela; All
sock puppet n.

[Usenet: from the act of placing a sock over your hand and talking to it and pretending it's talking back] In Usenet parlance, a pseudo through which the puppeteer posts follow-ups to their own original message to give the appearance that a number of people support the views held in the original message.


Incredible mastery of HTML craft Strela...maybe if we all behave, you can give us a lesson.......

Applause......clap, clap, clump...


539 posted on 07/26/2002 9:02:08 PM PDT by FresnoDA
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To: strela
sock puppet n. [Usenet: from the act of placing a sock over your hand and talking to it and pretending it's talking back] In Usenet parlance, a pseudo through which the puppeteer posts follow-ups to their own original message to give the appearance that a number of people support the views held in the original message.

Earth to strela, do you have ANY human contact during the daylight hours

614 posted on 07/26/2002 11:40:47 PM PDT by demsux
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