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The disk heads just crashed. Lose, lose. Mostly he talked about his latest crock. Flame, flame. Boy, what a bagbiter! Chomp, chomp! Some verb-doubled constructions have special meanings not immediately obvious from the verb. These have their own listings in the lexicon. The Usenet culture has one tripling convention unrelated to this; the names of joke topic groups often have a tripled last element. The first and paradigmatic example was alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork (a Muppet Show reference); other infamous examples have included: alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die comp.unix.internals.system.calls.brk.brk.brk sci.physics.edward.teller.boom.boom.boom alt.sadistic.dentists.drill.drill.drill These two traditions fuse in the newsgroup alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb , devoted to humor based on deliberately confounding parts of speech. Several observers have noted that the contents of this group is excellently representative of the peculiarities of hacker humor. Prev Up Next Chapter4.
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