Often during a conversation someone will say something like, “Did you check whack whack elmo whack system whack data?”
It didn’t take very long to figure out what “whack” actually was: a backslash. Thus, the above phrase becomes, “Did you check \\elmo\system\data?”
See also: http://www.unixwiz.net/archives/2004/11/whack_whack_1.html
Note: This wasn’t posted until 6/19/2006. I needed to review it and didn’t have time until now.
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