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What does "Ping" mean?
Posted on 07/02/2006 7:57:20 AM PDT by maineman
I see so many people asking to be put on the 'ping list', what does that mean?
I also see that you can be 'pinged' if something you are interested in is posted. Are you notified someway?
Thanks
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To: Barnacle
LOL!
I LOVE THAT! Thanks Barnacle!
341
posted on
07/02/2006 6:11:59 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
To: maineman
Congrats for launching one of those FR creative genius threads.
To: rzeznikj at stout
343
posted on
07/02/2006 6:56:36 PM PDT
by
MoochPooch
(I'm a compassionate cynic.)
To: maineman
344
posted on
07/02/2006 7:01:27 PM PDT
by
jetson
To: MoochPooch
345
posted on
07/02/2006 7:11:24 PM PDT
by
rzeznikj at stout
(ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
To: festus
How do you get the 100 liberals to fan out across the swamp in the first place ? Get them to participate in an "endangered snipe rescue" operation Very good! I'll have to try that one next time. Liberals have a tendency to huddle together as they have difficulty thinking independently and this just might get them to fan out a bit more.
To: Spunky
I don't know what happened. Guess I was just Spittin Mad". There are some people who feel they are the Freeper Elites and they are not much better then the DU they claim to dislike.
Keep the faith. Freep it. Ignore the @$$h*les that come with the territory.
347
posted on
07/02/2006 8:26:52 PM PDT
by
jongaltsr
(Hope to See ya in Galt's Gultch.)
To: Paleo Conservative
PONG!
348
posted on
07/03/2006 12:50:11 AM PDT
by
Wiz
To: maineman
Okay, who
me? (at least I wasn't ponged, I hate that on a Monday)
349
posted on
07/03/2006 4:37:36 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
To: Allegra
but most of us are just harmless smartasses. Speak for yourself. I'm a hugh smartass!
350
posted on
07/03/2006 5:18:26 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
To: Condor51
Thanks to the THREE people that answered my question. To the rest of you, I'll be sure to return the favor.
To: Xenalyte; Professional Engineer
Oh cripes!
How did Xena get nbr 69?
352
posted on
07/03/2006 6:34:45 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: maineman
Calm down.
I think the joshing you're getting is NOT that you asked a question, but you posted it in the wrong category - News/Activism - in lieu of say .. Chat, Miscellaneous, Vanity.
And don't feel bad. Due to my pop-up blocker settings my ping (pager), the icon in the upper right hand corner, didn't work until about a month ago. So there I sat all these years thinking 'what's that for, it doesn't work?'
353
posted on
07/03/2006 6:35:53 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
To: festus; Roscoe Karns
"He's not dead he's pinging for the fijords............"
True, true.
But he could be ponging for the chijevies. (Bettter that than longing for plimouths.)
354
posted on
07/03/2006 6:39:09 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: HawaiianGecko
Dave Mills offered this expansion of the name (Backronymn) to Packet InterNet Grouper (later called Groper and even Gopher)
Backronym? (Adds a new word to the dictionary...)
355
posted on
07/03/2006 6:43:14 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: jongaltsr; maineman; theophilusscribe
You're mighty quick to denigrate your fellow FReepers, who are having a little fun. May I remind you of something that is on the home page of FR, posted by Jim Robinson, the founder of FR:
Welcome to Free Republic! Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!
Please note, it was FReeper theophilusscribe who provided an answer on post #15 with a link to the Fifth Edition of the Lexicon of FreeRepublic * * A helpful FR dictionary for newcomers * *
So, lessons to be learned by you; 1) let fellow FReepers have fun, especially when no harm can come from it, and 2) if you are going to trash a group of people, at least be accurate.
Happy Birthday USA!
356
posted on
07/03/2006 7:07:22 AM PDT
by
NewLand
(Posting against liberalism since the 20th century!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE; Professional Engineer
You would notice, you deve. ;)
357
posted on
07/03/2006 7:08:54 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I want you to remember this face. This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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A backronym or bacronym is a type of acronym that begins as an ordinary word, and is later interpreted as an acronym. The word "backronym" is a portmanteau of back and acronym, and was coined in 1983. [1] The term is also used for a new set of words put to an existing acronym (e.g. "advanced research projects agency" "arpa" "address routing and parameters area"). An acronym is a word created from the initial letters of a phrase: for example, Random Access Memory becomes RAM, pronounced as the word "ram". Note the distinction between acronyms and initialisms: strictly speaking, one uses the term acronym only when the initials are pronounced as if they compose an actual word, though the term "backronym" is often used less precisely and applied to back-formed initialisms as well as back-formed acronyms. A backronym is created when one constructs a phrase that has as its acronym an existing short word. There are both official and generally serious, as well as unofficial and often humorous backronyms. When a backronym is peddled as the origin of a word, it is often an example of false etymology; when widely believed, it may have the status of a folk etymology; but more usually it is intended and understood as a joke as in: BASIC, is a programming language with an acronym--"Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" but, a backronym mostly in the hacker community has jokingly come to stand for "Bill's Attempt To Seize Industry Control".
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posted on
07/03/2006 7:28:39 AM PDT
by
HawaiianGecko
(Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
To: ovrtaxt
BTW: I didn't know what a "ping" was at the time. I thought I was the victim of a form of spam. Also BTW: I don't know how pinging is done, or why it's called pinging. I thought that was a term from sonar.
To: NewLand; maineman
Please note, it was FReeper theophilusscribe who provided an answer on post #15 with a link to the Fifth Edition of the Lexicon of FreeRepublic * * A helpful FR dictionary for newcomers * * Right. Sure.
As if anybody would take somebody seriously who can actually spell a pen name like "theophilusscribe " three times in a row.....
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posted on
07/03/2006 8:51:23 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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