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\ "Backwhack" - / "Whack" (Score:1)

by Mr. Muskrat (4572) <reversethis-{moc ... ta} {tarksum.rm}> on 2005.08.17 9:54 (#42680) Journal

Many people use "backwhack" to mean a backslash. So it makes perfect sense that a slash would be called "whack".

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- Re:\ "Backwhack" - / "Whack" (Score:1)
  
  by Mr. Muskrat (4572)
  
  Whack whack [everything2.com]
  
  Hmm, this says that a backslash is a whack (or backwhack) so then what do you call a slash? I think that they are just confused.
  - Re:\ "Backwhack" - / "Whack" (Score:1)
    
    by phaylon (6115)
    
    I first heard that from the speaker of a Microsoft (sic!) Presentation for .NET.
    
    The most funny part was the part after http, "Doublepoint-whack-whack-double-u-double-u-double-u-dot"
    
    --
    Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley

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