Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 27 Dec 2002.
lefthanded Items
alt.ascii-art
· 10 messages · 27 Dec 2002 - 29 Dec 2002
Received this coffee mug as gift, left handed I was told.
Oh boy! the wheels started to grind wondering what
the difference was ? . I ask the person, the reply was
the inscription was nice and you are left handed.
The next day did some searching an found this site
http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/
which also feature a picture of the cup but that was not
what I was looking for. What made it a left handed cup?
As it turns out the picture/writing is to you when it is
held in the left hand.
_..------''''''''------.._
.''`------..........------`''.
| |
_.-----'. |
/ .--._ | |
/ / '.' |
| | | _________________________ |
| | |===========================|
| | | "if the right side of |
| | | the brain controls the |
| | | left side of the body....|
| \ | then only left handed |
\ \ | people are in their |
`. `-../'. right minds." |
\ | __________________SOUTH__|
`-.....'====================PAW===|
| |
| |
| |
LGB \ /
`---._______________.---'
Never having given much thought about being left handed as
accept why did they build this way. Desk, doors, equipment,
tools an so much more all are backwards. Here is another
example of a left handed device.
Original from dp switch to a left handed keyboard
.--------------------------------------------------------------------.
| <> <> <> [P|S|P] [E] [F1|F2|F3|F4] [F5|F6|F7|F8] [F9|10|11|12] |
| |
| [*][/][N][-] [I|H|U] [`][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][0][-][=][<-BS] |
| [9][8][7]|+| [D|E|D] [<->][Q][W][E][R][T][Y][U][I][O][P][{][}][_\] |
| [4][5][6]|_| [CapL][A][S][D][F][G][H][J][K][L][;]['][Entr] |
| [1][2][3]|E| [^] [shift][Z][X][C][V][B][N][M][<][>][/][^shift] |
| [0 ][.]|_| [<|v|>] [ct] [al][________________________][al] [ct] |
'--------------------------------------------------------------------'
lgbeard
[lgbeard]: > > Original from dp switch to a left handed keyboard > .--------------------------------------------------------------------. > | <> <> <> [P|S|P] [E] [F1|F2|F3|F4] [F5|F6|F7|F8] [F9|10|11|12] | > | | > | [*][/][N][-] [I|H|U] [`][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][0][-][=][<-BS] | > | [9][8][7]|+| [D|E|D] [<->][Q][W][E][R][T][Y][U][I][O][P][{][}][_\] | > | [4][5][6]|_| [CapL][A][S][D][F][G][H][J][K][L][;]['][Entr] | > | [1][2][3]|E| [^] [shift][Z][X][C][V][B][N][M][<][>][/][^shift] | > | [0 ][.]|_| [<|v|>] [ct] [al][________________________][al] [ct] | > '--------------------------------------------------------------------' why not switch to a neutral layout? .------------------------------------------------. | [es][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][0][-][=][\][`] | | [tab][Q][W][E][R][T][Y][U][I][O][P][{][}][del] | | [ctrl][A][S][D][F][G][H][J][K][L][;]['][enter] | | [shift][Z][X][C][V][B][N][M][,][.][/][shf][fn] | | [alt][<>][_________________][<>][alt] | '------------------------------------------------' I use this at work, it's lovely since it takes so little space and has a wonderful feel. it helps to be a hardcore vi (hjkl) and/or Emacs-user (C-b C-n C-p C-f) though. -- Kjetil T. | Happy Hacking! | http://shop.store.yahoo.com/pfuca-store/
_.--- lgbeard spoke in alt.ascii-art --------._ > > Received this coffee mug as gift, left handed I was told. My "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" coffee cup I got from Think Geek is a left handed one. There was no mention of it being so when I ordered it but thats how it arived. There is a tourist trap in my area and one of the shops in it is a magic shop where you can get all of the cheap gags that keep people amused for 20 seconds. But in the back of the store there is a left handed section where you can get lefthanded clocks, coffee cups, knives, rulers, scissors et al. My Happy Hacking Keyboard. ,-------------:F_P:--------------. |Esc|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0|-|=|||`|| |Tab|Q|W|E|R|T|Y|U|I|O|P|{|}|Del | |Cntrl|A|S|D|F|G|H|J|K|L|;|'|Entr| |shft|Z|X|C|V|B|N|M|<|>|/|shft|fn| |fn|*|alt|_____________|*|alt| ^ | | <v>| `--------------------------------' Row #1 == 1 to = also act as F1-F12, |= Ins, ~=Del Row #2 == Tab=CAPS, I=prnt/scr, o=scrlk, p=pus/brk, Del = Backspace {=up arrow Row #3 == K= Home, L=Pg/Up, ;= left arrow, '= right arrow Row #4 == <=End, >=Pg/Dn, /=down arrow ^ <v> = arrow keys which also do pg/up, home, pg/dn, end '---...____ Faux_Pseudo ________________...---~~~ -- .-')) http://asciipr0n.com/fp ('-. | It's a damn poor mind that ' ..- .:" ) New content ( ":. -.. ' | can only think of one way to ((,,_;'.;' 10 / 30 ';. ';_,,)) | spell a word. ((_.;'*Faux_Pseudo*':._)) | - Andrew Jackson
On 27 Dec 2002 17:17:00 +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kje...@haey.ifi.uio.no> wrote: >[lgbeard]: >> >> Original from dp switch to a left handed keyboard >> .--------------------------------------------------------------------. >> | <> <> <> [P|S|P] [E] [F1|F2|F3|F4] [F5|F6|F7|F8] [F9|10|11|12] | >> | | >> | [*][/][N][-] [I|H|U] [`][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][0][-][=][<-BS] | >> | [9][8][7]|+| [D|E|D] [<->][Q][W][E][R][T][Y][U][I][O][P][{][}][_\] | >> | [4][5][6]|_| [CapL][A][S][D][F][G][H][J][K][L][;]['][Entr] | >> | [1][2][3]|E| [^] [shift][Z][X][C][V][B][N][M][<][>][/][^shift] | >> | [0 ][.]|_| [<|v|>] [ct] [al][________________________][al] [ct] | >> '--------------------------------------------------------------------' > >why not switch to a neutral layout? > > .------------------------------------------------. > | [es][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][0][-][=][\][`] | > | [tab][Q][W][E][R][T][Y][U][I][O][P][{][}][del] | > | [ctrl][A][S][D][F][G][H][J][K][L][;]['][enter] | > | [shift][Z][X][C][V][B][N][M][,][.][/][shf][fn] | > | [alt][<>][_________________][<>][alt] | > '------------------------------------------------' > >I use this at work, it's lovely since it takes so little space and has >a wonderful feel. it helps to be a hardcore vi (hjkl) and/or >Emacs-user (C-b C-n C-p C-f) though. A neutral layout with out all the other junk would be great. will look into it. obascii -- writing left to right __________ | | <-- Top left corner | | | | |__________| <-- Top right corner lgbeard
Faux_Pseudo wrote:
> "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"
[snip]
Hey, could someone explain me this "all etc.." thing?
I've always been wondering about his meaning, but I've never
understood it!
--
Lupino
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Lupino wrote: > Faux_Pseudo wrote: > >> "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" > [snip] > > Hey, could someone explain me this "all etc.." thing? > I've always been wondering about his meaning, but I've never > understood it! Read this article at the register for an explanation http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/17122.html Richard :) -- Will kill for Documentation. A Vic 20 is faster than a C64: 8bit roxs http://dogmilk.homelinux.com/
From the Jargon File (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon): all your base are belong to us A declaration of victory or superiority. The phrase stems from a 1991 adaptation of Toaplan's "Zero Wing" shoot-'em-up arcade game for the Sega Genesis game console. A brief introduction was added to the opening screen, and it has what many consider to be the worst Japanese-to-English translation in video game history. The introduction shows the bridge of a starship in chaos as a Borg-like figure named CATS materializes and says, "How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us." [sic] In 2001, this amusing mistranslation spread virally through the internet, bringing with it a slew of JPEGs and a movie of hacked photographs, each showing a street sign, store front, package label, etc. hacked to read "All your base are belong to us" or one of the other many supremely dopey lines from the game (such as "Somebody set us up the bomb!!!" or "What happen?"). When these phrases are used properly, the overall effect is both screamingly funny and somewhat chilling, reminiscent of the B movie "They Live". The original has been generalized to "All your X are belong to us", where X is filled in to connote a sinister takeover of some sort. Thus, "When Joe signed up for his new job at Yoyodyne, he had to sign a draconian NDA. It basically said, `All your code are belong to us.'" Has many of the connotations of "Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated" (see Borg). Considered silly, and most likely to be used by the type of person that finds Jeff K. hilarious. Richard James wrote: > Lupino wrote: > > > Faux_Pseudo wrote: > > > > > "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" > > [snip] > > > > Hey, could someone explain me this "all etc.." thing? > > I've always been wondering about his meaning, but I've never > > understood it! > > Read this article at the register for an explanation > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/17122.html > > Richard :)
BoD wrote: > From the Jargon File (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon): > > all your base are belong to us [snip] thanks.. I was going to read the other link, but this's enough! So it's a mistranslation.. I didn't understand the grammar of the sentence! -- Lupino Azzurranet IRC: @#afiad, @#fils, @#pokegalaxy - ICQ: 91528290 Mail: Remove PAN to contact me - "It is not important what you believe, only that you believe." -
_.--- Lupino spoke in alt.ascii-art --------._ > BoD wrote: > >> From the Jargon File (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon): >> >> all your base are belong to us > [snip] > > thanks.. I was going to read the other link, but this's enough! > So it's a mistranslation.. I didn't understand the grammar of the > sentence! <drunk> The grammer is the reason as to it's quantness. Without it you would never have heard of it. </drunk> '---...____ Faux_Pseudo ________________...---~~~ -- .-')) http://asciipr0n.com/fp ('-. | It's a damn poor mind that ' ..- .:" ) New content ( ":. -.. ' | can only think of one way to ((,,_;'.;' 10 / 30 ';. ';_,,)) | spell a word. ((_.;'*Faux_Pseudo*':._)) | - Andrew Jackson
> all your base are belong to us > > A declaration of victory or superiority. The phrase stems from a 1991 > adaptation of Toaplan's "Zero Wing" shoot-'em-up arcade game for the Sega > Genesis game console. A brief introduction was added to the opening screen, > and it has what many consider to be the worst Japanese-to-English > translation in video game history. [snip] All your ascii are belong to us! \ Sure thing is. `, \ = = # /_,/\ |/ ? /" ( | o )\ .Y___ / /__/\ \____ \(__ ,- / \_/ \ / (\ |/| / < _____ _> \ |. ||\ -|.|--/___/ ,___/___\------'-----' '-' |\/ b'ger joris
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