Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.culture.usenet,sci.lang.english,alt.folklore.computers Path: news.cinenet.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!zephyr.texoma.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!uucp3.uu.net!world!kibo From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) Subject: Kibo immortalized in big fat dictionary. Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology Reply-To: kibo@world.std.com Organization: HappyNet Headquarters Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 22:13:09 GMT Lines: 62 Xref: news.cinenet.net alt.religion.kibology:23397 alt.culture.usenet:7632 alt.folklore.computers:14642 News flash! (Please excuse the massive crosspost but this is important--it deals with Kibo's wonderfully large ego.) Jim Finnis alerted me to a story in the London Times (March 10) about the Oxford English Dictionary's new edition containing new Internet-related words. One of them is me. "Kibo". I am not making this up. -- March 10 1997 GENERAL NEWS Computer chips and the social potatoes BY TIM JONES COMPUTER addicts are being recognised with a new status placing them somewhere between motivated and muscular Ð but only in a dictionary. The Oxford University Press is to define them in its next edition under the name: mouse potatoes. The people who sit for hours surfing the global network rather than enjoying a social life will be defined as being seen by many as "having a twilight existence, cut off from reality". Some are also defined by an addiction to "cybersex" on e-mail. The new Oxford English Dictionary will include scores of computer-speak phrases which are edging their way into common usage. Internet users are "netizens" and "cybernauts". There is also "kibo", the web slang for God. Helen McManners, an OUP spokeswoman, said: "Mouse potatoes are a new breed joining yuppies, bimbos, toyboys and others who have earned a place in the English language." -- I am hoping there will be a little picture. Given that they think my name is lowercase and "web slang", I figure there will probably be a really screwed-up etymology cited (i.e. the one from the Jargon File / New Hacker's Dictionary.) If there is a picture, I will gladly buy that particular volume of the OED. I will carry it around all day so that whenever someone says "Hey pinhead, there's a picture of you in the dictionary under 'bozo'!" I will say, "No, my picture's HERE!" And it better be full-page, in color. If there's no picture, I'll just rip the page out of the library's copy. Don't worry, I wouldn't do this in a good library. I'd do it from some sleazy night library so that nobody will get upset with me. Thank you, Mr. Finnis! I owe you a roll of Mentos! -- K. http://www.the-times.co.uk/ log in, go to "Times Interactive", then to "Internet Archive" and search 1997 for "Kibo".