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spod
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n. [UK] 1. A lower form of life found on talker systems and MUD s. The spod
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has few friends in RL and uses talkers instead, finding communication easier
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and preferable over the net. He has all the negative traits of the computer
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geek without having any interest in computers per se. Lacking any knowledge
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of or interest in how networks work, and considering his access a God-given
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right, he is a major irritant to sysadmins, clogging up lines in order to
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reach new MUDs, following passed-on instructions on how to sneak his way
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onto Internet ( Wow! It's in America! ) and complaining when he is not
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allowed to use busy routes. A true spod will start any conversation with Are
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you male or female? (and follow it up with Got any good
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numbers/IDs/passwords? ) and will not talk to someone physically present in
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the same terminal room until they log onto the same machine that he is using
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and enter talk mode. Compare newbie , tourist , weenie , twink , terminal
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junkie , warez d00dz. 2. A backronym for Sole Purpose, Obtain a Degree ;
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according to some self-described spods, this term is used by indifferent
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students to condemn their harder-working fellows. Compare the defiant
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adoption of the term geek in the mid-1990s by people who would previously
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have been stigmatized by it. Spods in the positive sense are talker users
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who've accumulated a large amount of spod time, that is, they spend a lot of
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time logged in to that talker (for example, my spod time on Uberworld as of
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this moment is 131 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes). Spods are generally
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highly knowledgeable about talkers and SGXStalker coding, as well as
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computers and the internet in general. 3. [Glasgow University] An otherwise
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competent hacker who spends way too much time on talker systems. 4. [obs.]
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An ordinary person; a random. This is the meaning with which the term was
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coined, but the inventor informs us he has himself accepted sense 1.
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