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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>spod</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="splork-.html" title="splork!"/><link rel="next" href="spoiler.html" title="spoiler"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">spod</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="splork-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spoiler.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="spod"/><dt xmlns="" id="spod"><b>spod</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [UK] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. A lower form of life found on
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<a href="../T/talker-system.html"><i class="glossterm">talker system</i></a>s and <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a>s. The spod has few
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friends in <a href="../R/RL.html"><i class="glossterm">RL</i></a> and uses talkers instead, finding
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communication easier and preferable over the net. He has all the negative
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traits of the computer geek without having any interest in computers per
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se. Lacking any knowledge of or interest in how networks work, and
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considering his access a God-given right, he is a major irritant to
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sysadmins, clogging up lines in order to reach new MUDs, following
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passed-on instructions on how to sneak his way onto Internet (“<span class="quote">Wow!
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It's in America!</span>”) and complaining when he is not allowed to use
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busy routes. A true spod will start any conversation with “<span class="quote">Are you
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male or female?</span>” (and follow it up with “<span class="quote">Got any good
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numbers/IDs/passwords?</span>”) and will not talk to someone physically
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present in the same terminal room until they log onto the same machine that
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he is using and enter talk mode. Compare <a href="../N/newbie.html"><i class="glossterm">newbie</i></a>,
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<a href="../T/tourist.html"><i class="glossterm">tourist</i></a>, <a href="../W/weenie.html"><i class="glossterm">weenie</i></a>,
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<a href="../T/twink.html"><i class="glossterm">twink</i></a>, <a href="../T/terminal-junkie.html"><i class="glossterm">terminal junkie</i></a>,
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<a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A <a href="../B/backronym.html"><i class="glossterm">backronym</i></a> for “<span class="quote">Sole Purpose,
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Obtain a Degree</span>”; according to some self-described spods, this term
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is used by indifferent students to condemn their harder-working
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fellows. Compare the defiant adoption of the term
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<a href="../G/geek.html"><i class="glossterm">geek</i></a> 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
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of time logged in to that talker (for example, my spod time on Uberworld as
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of 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. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [Glasgow University] An otherwise competent hacker who spends way
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too much time on talker systems. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. [obs.] An ordinary person; a <a href="../R/random.html"><i class="glossterm">random</i></a>. This
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is the meaning with which the term was coined, but the inventor informs us
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he has himself accepted sense 1.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="splork-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spoiler.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">splork! </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> spoiler</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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