The Ouroborus 67
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Wow (Score:5, Interesting)
Not only is this handily the worst Slashdot "story" I've ever seen, but it's spelled "Ouroboros".
-Peter
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Wikipedia has an entry even for "Nucular". Right now it says that "some recognize it because of its increased usage", give it a little and it will say it is a fine spelling. The fact is that the greek "omicron upsilon" is translated as either "ou" or "u", so while Uroboros is fine, "Oroborus" is an obvious misspelling that probably originated from the fact that the "us" is a common latin suffix, while this particular word seems to have been originated directly from Greek and not gone through the not uncommo
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Very nicely done.
-Peter
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1000 internets to you good sir. The first thing I thought of apon seeing this "Article" was of that particular Red Dwarf episode.
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I don't really get the idleispants thing. I mean, I think I understand the sentiment, but it is a very . . . non-US way of expressing it.
It just seems that nearly all the posts I see on Slashdot are in some approximation of US English. Are there a bunch of Britons hanging around Slashdot just tagging stories? If so, are they the assholes who insist on tagging every story, "story"?
-Peter
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Maybe, just maybe, this isn't actually a Slashdot story, but is the sick joke of a really, really good DNS hacker....
Nah. That's just wishful thinking.
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It is a logo submission for oroborus you insensitive clod!
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Listen people! There is a very good reason this is on the /. main page, since this is a tech website, it is meant to spark conversation and be meaningful in a technology kind of way.
I swear to Superman, I actually thought about the symbolic meaning of the ouroboros as it relates to the theory of the ultimate universal collapse (as opposed to infinite expansion or a cyclical growth and contraction) while this thread was loading.
Little did I know that I'd already moved beyond the scope of the article before I even had a chance not to read it.
WTF? (Score:2, Flamebait)
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"Why can't we mod entire "stories" -1 offtopic?"
Because you didn't check the firehose.
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Perhaps now Idle should be renamed Weird, or Strange. :P
Just name the section: Off-topic.
nom nom nom (Score:5, Funny)
Re:nom nom nom (Score:5, Funny)
nom nom nom oh noes nom nom hai i haz a flavorz
The tragic thing is that this is the most on topic post in this thread...
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The even more tragic thing is that most people probably got the ICHC reference. Hoomins!
Ewww (Score:5, Funny)
Talk about leaving a shitty taste in your mouth...
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snakes don't have an asshole to begin with, so they poop through their mouth.
Wrong [wikipedia.org]. And that's what taking acid during your biology classes leads to...
they didn't even know what name to give him (Score:2, Funny)
our rob o ros. //read from a box found under a grav-pool table.
ouroboros (Score:2, Interesting)
do you perhaps mean:
ouroboros?
oroboros is a window manager.
Millennium (Score:2, Interesting)
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Hmm, I guess whoever modded the above offtopic doesn't know what the logo for Millenium was for it's 3 season run:
http://www.millennium-thisiswhoweare.net/cmeacg/img/millennium_logo.jpg [millennium...oweare.net]
Interesting tail. (Score:2, Funny)
I'm intrigued. How will this concept scale?
My coworker points out that this idea doesn't have any legs to stand on.
Oh - my boss said that this bites.
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How long can it keep on devouring itself?
Most likely it would regurgitate itself before it has digested enough to mortally wound itself.
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You haven't seen one realize it isn't big enough to eat a whole baby zebra yet. Comes out all slimy.
The more interesting version is two (or more) snakes eating each other. When do they decide to give up, or do they? Will the one who doesn't die first stop before he engulfs the first's head?
Amazing Creature! (Score:5, Funny)
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We like to think if as birth-barfing. The really nasty part is when it gets near the end... Ever drag your own anus down the length of your tongue? It's not pleasant.
Yours truly,
Self-Birthing Snake
Slashdot (Score:5, Insightful)
You aren't Digg. Stop trying to be. You are better than that. Slashdot does not need colour-coded, user-rated stories that you 'digg up' and 'bury' and, above all, does not need single image 'stories' for people to LOL over. Have some dignity.
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Hogwash McFly (Score:1, Insightful)
Lighten up. This section is called "Idle" and not on the main page for a reason.
Typical nerd, no personality, no sense of humor, thinks he is oh so
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Mod Parent Up (Score:2)
He has some valid points.
fire samzepus now (Score:3, Insightful)
samzenpus, you're on notice. (Score:2)
Another "story" that's as lame as this and you're going on my ignore list. I haven't put an author on my /. ignore list since Jon Katz (although Zonk has come close a few times).
The only reason I haven't done it already is that your shotgun approach to posting random stories means that sometimes you post interesting ones, too, but that will be an acceptable loss if that's what I have to do to avoid crap like this.
Reminds me of Tintin (Score:2)
Ecosystem (Score:4, Funny)
I see this as a metaphor for technological man.
Cool (Score:2)
Look its a Democrat!
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Which one? The head or the tail?
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Benzene! (Score:2)
What, somebody already thought of that? Damn.
I saw this and though benzene ring (Score:2)