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posted March 04, 2002 00:57           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ok, so I have this friend that I have been hangin out with for about 3 months now. Every time we go out we both have a great time. I have grown to like her a lot, but, I can't tell if she likes me. Although she has often told me that we could have been twins. Should I come right out and ask her or wait untill I can figure it out for myself? I havn't dated in two years so I'm kind of rusty about picking up on clues, not to say that I ever could.

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Nemo
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posted March 04, 2002 01:57     Click Here to See the Profile for Nemo   Click Here to Email Nemo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Tough one...
You could wait and see if she likes you too, or you could tell her how you feel and ask her how she feels. Either way, don't let it take too long - it is better that you tell her now and then find out, rather then wait and find out that she's felt the same way about you for just as long. It's nothing like being told that the other person felt the same way about you for just as long. The worst part is being told this after the old "LJBF" speech, knowing then what you wanted to know some time ago.
Believe me, been there - done that.
I felt one way, but never told - not knowing that he felt the same way but didn't dare to tell me. When we finally got the courage to let eachother know, things turned out good. And eventhough this might not be the best example, since we're just friends now, it's still better to let people know how you really feel. It saves you from spending a lot of time wondering how things could've turned out.

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posted March 04, 2002 16:17     Click Here to See the Profile for ZorroTheFox   Click Here to Email ZorroTheFox     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The decoder ring was in boxes of Smurf Berry Crunch in the late '80's. I tried it out and it doesnt look good. It says the "twins" reference means she views you as family, like a brother. Unless she is a hillbilly, you're most likely out of luck. It is still worth telling her your feelings and finding out what she really thinks of you. My data tends to be flawed so don't look too deeply into what I say. I haven't had a serious relationship last more that 2 months since elementary school.......Z

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posted March 05, 2002 21:58     Click Here to See the Profile for FatGnome   Click Here to Email FatGnome     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I got my ring from a box of Frosted Flakes but it says about the same thing. Well maybe not but saying that she thinks of you as twins hrmm *turns the nob to twins* It says that she probably thinks you are great and she realy enjoys your company. If she is going out of her way to be with you or does not mind you going out of your way to be with her she probably likes you as well but may not be able to take the next step unless you are willing to make it first. Just a thought.

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posted March 06, 2002 07:02     Click Here to See the Profile for macadddikt18   Click Here to Email macadddikt18     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
i don't need no ring. I have a magic frying pan.
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posted March 06, 2002 07:28     Click Here to See the Profile for Swiss Mercenary   Click Here to Email Swiss Mercenary     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Frperg qrpbqre sbe jbzra? V jvfu.

Vg vf cynva naq fvzcyr, lbh ner hanoyr gb yvir jvgu gurz naq hanoyr gb yvir jvgubhg gurz.

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posted March 06, 2002 14:43     Click Here to See the Profile for The Pope of Perl   Click Here to Email The Pope of Perl     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Swiss Mercenary:
V qbhog jbzra jbhyq hfr fbzrguvat nf fvzcyr nf Ebg 13.

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posted March 07, 2002 06:05     Click Here to See the Profile for macadddikt18   Click Here to Email macadddikt18     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
what the heck was that?
Nayt

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posted March 07, 2002 06:39     Click Here to See the Profile for mephisto   Click Here to Email mephisto     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by macadddikt18:
what the heck was that?
Nayt


its a simple cipher the kind you would create with a decoder ring style encryption. I'm too lazy to try to figure it out as I just woke and I want my coffee.

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posted March 07, 2002 07:15     Click Here to See the Profile for Swiss Mercenary   Click Here to Email Swiss Mercenary     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Pope of Perl:
EBGSYZNB
Cebonoyl abg, ohg jr pna nyjnlf ubcr.
Zvenpyrf unccra, be gurl ner oybaqrf.

Nayt - Vg vf pnyyrq EBG-13, qngrf sebz jnl onpx jura gur jro qvq abg rkvfg.

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posted March 07, 2002 07:49     Click Here to See the Profile for Janeway   Click Here to Email Janeway     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Crefbanyyl, V gnxr bssrafr gb gur cerprqvat pbairefngvba.

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posted March 07, 2002 08:27     Click Here to See the Profile for macadddikt18   Click Here to Email macadddikt18     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ok, i guess i need to find some sugar and ice tea and set to work on these. Or do i really want to know what they say?
nayt

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posted March 07, 2002 09:02     Click Here to See the Profile for spungo   Click Here to Email spungo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What is this, international Welsh day?

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posted March 07, 2002 09:06     Click Here to See the Profile for spungo   Click Here to Email spungo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I reckon you're all just typing random nonsense so you can laugh at any of us trying to decode it.

Decode this !

hfhsdkf%_KILL_*hkjhh9874h-STEVE-hk-JOBS_!!hjgjh

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posted March 07, 2002 09:29     Click Here to See the Profile for Janeway   Click Here to Email Janeway     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wnarjnl vf abg pyhryrff! Va snpg, urer'f n pyhr evtug abj. You'll find out what's this in the joke forum.

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posted March 07, 2002 18:01     Click Here to See the Profile for ZorroTheFox   Click Here to Email ZorroTheFox     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ouyay upidstay erksjay .....sorry, I couldn't resist temptation.....Z

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posted March 07, 2002 19:30     Click Here to See the Profile for Geordie   Click Here to Email Geordie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
V urneq jbzra npghnyyl hfr ebg 39

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posted March 07, 2002 22:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Bregalad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Geordie:
V urneq jbzra npghnyyl hfr ebg 39

YBY

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posted March 08, 2002 03:21     Click Here to See the Profile for spungo   Click Here to Email spungo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ZorroTheFox:
ouyay upidstay erksjay .....sorry, I couldn't resist temptation.....Z

Hey Hey! Nice one, Z!

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posted March 08, 2002 05:23     Click Here to See the Profile for Swiss Mercenary   Click Here to Email Swiss Mercenary     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Janeway, sorry if I upset you. In this case it started out as a joke, knowing that ROT-13 was commonly used and that people would decode it to see what was going on.

I did not realise that you would feel hurt and so I apologise.

Maybe I am the clueless one

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posted March 08, 2002 20:31     Click Here to See the Profile for Janeway   Click Here to Email Janeway     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Swiss Mercenary:
Janeway, sorry if I upset you. In this case it started out as a joke, knowing that ROT-13 was commonly used and that people would decode it to see what was going on.

I'm not upset. (That's why I had the little raspberry face after the first post) But darn, now everyone knows it's rot-13. And I had another really good clue right on the tip of my brain. By the way, jbzra jbex fznegre, abg uneqre (see this link).


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posted March 08, 2002 20:49     Click Here to See the Profile for Bregalad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Janeway:
By the way, jbzra jbex fznegre, abg uneqre (see this link).

You just proved it too, I was doing WAY more work: copying the text from my browser, opening up NewsWatcher, creating a new post, pasting in the text and using the built in function to translate it.

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posted March 09, 2002 06:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Geordie   Click Here to Email Geordie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Feh. A browser or a newsreader is overkill;
code:
tr "[a-m][n-z][A-M][N-Z]" "[n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]" 

is the only way to go.

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posted March 09, 2002 14:02     Click Here to See the Profile for Bregalad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hey Geordie, that's cool, but a heck of a lot of careful typing. It seems far easier to open a second browser window, paste in the text and click a button.

If such "shortcuts" were actually faster or easier I'd probably take the time to learn how to use the unix layer of MacOS X.

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posted March 11, 2002 08:26     Click Here to See the Profile for nekomatic   Click Here to Email nekomatic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by spungo:
What is this, international Welsh day?

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posted March 11, 2002 14:25     Click Here to See the Profile for +Andrew   Click Here to Email +Andrew     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Bregalad:
Hey Geordie, that's cool, but a heck of a lot of careful typing. It seems far easier to open a second browser window, paste in the text and click a button.

If such "shortcuts" were actually faster or easier I'd probably take the time to learn how to use the unix layer of MacOS X.


Can't you paste the command into Terminal.app's command line? I know all the X11 terminal program's I've used support pasting..

-Andrew

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posted March 11, 2002 19:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Geordie   Click Here to Email Geordie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Actually I cut and pasted the function from my .bashrc file where it is given a nice simple name. I added that function on my NeXT about ten years ago and have migrated it from machine to machine since. About once a year I actually have cause to use it.

The scary thing is I also have a bbedit plug-in to do the same thing and I once created two different versions of the function in the OneClick scripting language (the first time I actually converted the ascii codes to their numeric values and used addition). I think I have more tools to do the job than times I have had to do it. Then again that's pretty typical for me.

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posted March 12, 2002 16:51     Click Here to See the Profile for Bregalad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by +Andrew:
Can't you paste the command into Terminal.app's command line? I know all the X11 terminal program's I've used support pasting..-Andrew

Yes terminal.app supports paste. I was refering to the mix of upper case, lower case and symbols as parameters of the tr command. I'm guessing from Geordie's comments that he has some shortcut which saves him all that typing, but being a *nix newbie I don't understand how that's done.

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posted March 15, 2002 07:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Colonel Panic   Click Here to Email Colonel Panic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
At Ease Nerds.

Nemo wrote:

"Either way, don't let it take too long - it is better that you tell her now and then find out, rather then wait and find out that she's felt the same way about you for just as long. It's nothing like being told that the other person felt the same way about you for just as long. The worst part is being told this after the old "LJBF" speech, knowing then what you wanted to know some time ago."

Actually, I disagree. Unrequitted love is best. The longer the better, until you reach retirement, announce your love and write the rusults into a screenplay for the Lifetime channel.

That is all.

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I know this comes a bit late, but:

imadev:~$ ssh svr1a 'cat /etc/debian_version; ls -l /usr/games/rot13'
wooledg@svr1a's password:
2.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1998 Jan 11 2000 /usr/games/rot13
imadev:~$ ssh p5120 'uname -a; ls -l /usr/games/rot13'
wooledg@p5120's password:
OpenBSD p5120 3.0 kernel#0 i386
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 Mar 14 23:38 /usr/games/rot13 -> caesar

Or in English: most high-quality Unix-like systems have a rot13 command. It usually lives in /usr/games, but you might find it elsewhere. It's originally derived from BSD (in Debian, it's part of the bsdgames package).

If you don't have rot13 natively, you can just stick that tr command that Geordie posted into a shell script:

#!/bin/sh
tr "[a-m][n-z][A-M][N-Z]" "[n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]"

Make it executable (chmod 755), and put it in /usr/local/bin/rot13, and voila!

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posted March 22, 2002 21:18     Click Here to See the Profile for Atmosphere     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
spiffy! the script works!

so... uh... how does one exit it and get back to the command prompt?

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The clean way: Ctrl-D on a line by itself.

The dirty way: Ctrl-C. Or kill it from another window.

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posted March 27, 2002 11:15     Click Here to See the Profile for macadddikt18   Click Here to Email macadddikt18     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That is impressive. I have never seen someone post a whole script before. Indeed quite cool.
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