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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / April 2004Clever vanity auto licence plate
Driving home from work tonight I saw this vanity licence plate 10SNE1... Took me the longest time to figure out what it actually aid... Something in the car gave me a clue.... Who can figure it out???? Jack Harney AKA "Cannon Fodder" AKA "Grumpy Old Fart AKA "Certified Senior Curmudgeon" From Civ - 5 "I have the cultural tact of a Cuban Pig" points for your effort....Gracefully accepted :) > Driving home from work tonight I saw this vanity licence plate > 10SNE1... Took me the longest time to figure out what it actually > aid... Something in the car gave me a clue.... Who can figure it > out???? Was it Bjorn Borg? HeHe... ya pegged it... :) >> Driving home from work tonight I saw this vanity licence plate >> 10SNE1... Took me the longest time to figure out what it actually >> aid... Something in the car gave me a clue.... Who can figure it >> out???? > >Was it Bjorn Borg? Jack Harney AKA "Cannon Fodder" AKA "Grumpy Old Fart AKA "Certified Senior Curmudgeon" From Civ - 5 "I have the cultural tact of a Cuban Pig" points for your effort....Gracefully accepted :) >10SNE1... Took me the longest time to figure out what it actually >aid... Something in the car gave me a clue. They had a tennis raquet?  SignatureWilliam Smith ComputerSmiths Consulting, Inc. www.compusmiths.com Yep, 4 of them in the back window... :) >>10SNE1... Took me the longest time to figure out what it actually >>aid... Something in the car gave me a clue. > >They had a tennis raquet? Jack Harney AKA "Cannon Fodder" AKA "Grumpy Old Fart AKA "Certified Senior Curmudgeon" From Civ - 5 "I have the cultural tact of a Cuban Pig" points for your effort....Gracefully accepted :) Took me a while to figure it out. Plus, what's Borg doing in Houston? JazzMan > Yep, 4 of them in the back window... :) > > >>10SNE1... Took me the longest time to figure out what it actually > >>aid... Something in the car gave me a clue. > > > >They had a tennis raquet? Signature********************************************************** Please reply to jsavage"at"airmail.net. Curse those darned bulk e-mailers! ********************************************************** "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry ********************************************************** >Driving home from work tonight I saw this vanity licence plate >10SNE1... Tennis any one? It's a classic way to remember passwords and the like too, especially those that have to be shared with others for admin accounts. Some used at a now-defunct company I worked for years ago included 10sne1, Invu4uraqt, YamIhere, CMedbdIs, and ICU812. My favorite, which I used as the enable account on the networking gear, was SohCahToa. While it wasn't a phrase, it was just as easy to remember. -- * Dan Sorenson DoD #1066 a.shole #35 BOTY 1997 viking@svtv.com * * Vikings? There ain't no vikings here. Just us honest farmers. * * The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need * * those sheep anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it. * > My favorite, which I used as the enable account on the >networking gear, was SohCahToa. While it wasn't a phrase, it >was just as easy to remember. It is a phrase, you probably learnt it in school. I indicates Sin - Opposite/Hypotuneuse, Cos - Adjacent/Hyp., Tan - Opp/Adj. Civilian_Target > It is a phrase, you probably learnt it in school. I indicates Sin - > Opposite/Hypotuneuse, Cos - Adjacent/Hyp., Tan - Opp/Adj. Wow, that brings back memories. I thought I'd never see that mnemonic again. >> My favorite, which I used as the enable account on the >>networking gear, was SohCahToa. While it wasn't a phrase, it >>was just as easy to remember. > >It is a phrase, you probably learnt it in school. I indicates Sin - >Opposite/Hypotuneuse, Cos - Adjacent/Hyp., Tan - Opp/Adj. I considered it an acrostic, but you got it in one. As an aside, being a gear-head I could never remember it without thinking of the sequence Single Overhead Cams and Hot Tires on Asphalt. -- * Dan Sorenson DoD #1066 a.shole #35 BOTY 1997 viking@svtv.com * * Vikings? There ain't no vikings here. Just us honest farmers. * * The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need * * those sheep anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it. * > As an aside, being a gear-head I could never remember it >without thinking of the sequence Single Overhead Cams and Hot >Tires on Asphalt. That's just wierd. Here, have Sin (3.14157 / 2) "Obscure definition point" Civilian_Target >> As an aside, being a gear-head I could never remember it >>without thinking of the sequence Single Overhead Cams and Hot >>Tires on Asphalt. > > That's just wierd. Here, have Sin (3.14157 / 2) "Obscure definition > point" or Cos (Sqrt (3) / 2) "Obscure Definition Point" :) SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 >>> As an aside, being a gear-head I could never remember it >>>without thinking of the sequence Single Overhead Cams and Hot [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >or Cos (Sqrt (3) / 2) "Obscure Definition Point" :) Thats not very generous of you. Thats less than 2/3rds of a point. Plus, since I beat you to it, I'm the only one allowed to issue "Obscure Definition Points", you'll have to make do with "Phoney Copy Obscure Definition Points" Civilian_Target >>>> As an aside, being a gear-head I could never remember it >>>>without thinking of the sequence Single Overhead Cams and Hot [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Thats not very generous of you. Thats less than 2/3rds of a point. They call me stingy for a reason ;) > Plus, since I beat you to it, I'm the only one allowed to issue > "Obscure Definition Points", you'll have to make do with "Phoney Copy > Obscure Definition Points" I'm sure someone else was already issuing these points way before this thread ;) .. or maybe that was you SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 >> Plus, since I beat you to it, I'm the only one allowed to issue >> "Obscure Definition Points", you'll have to make do with "Phoney Copy >> Obscure Definition Points" > >I'm sure someone else was already issuing these points way before this >thread ;) .. or maybe that was you Maybe you're thinking of "Definition King" points or "Spyder was too obscure" points, because according to Google I'm the first to issue "Obscure Definition" points. Unfortunately, someone else give out "I corrected Bench" points, and only you can give out "I spotted Bench's Mistake" points (although since they're as common as mud I don't see why anyone would want them :p ) Civilian_Target >>>Plus, since I beat you to it, I'm the only one allowed to issue >>>"Obscure Definition Points", you'll have to make do with "Phoney Copy [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > obscure" points, because according to Google I'm the first to issue > "Obscure Definition" points. Maybe :) > Unfortunately, someone else give out "I corrected Bench" points, and > only you can give out "I spotted Bench's Mistake" points (although > since they're as common as mud I don't see why anyone would want them > :p ) Hey! Actually I can only recall ever giving those out 3 times :p SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 >Hey! Actually I can only recall ever giving those out 3 times :p Must have a short term memory problem so :) Hell, you even gave them to Steven Vandenbosch! Civilian_Target >>Hey! Actually I can only recall ever giving those out 3 times :p > > Must have a short term memory problem so :) > > Hell, you even gave them to Steven Vandenbosch! No i just couldn't be arsed to look up in Google how many times i'd given them out as i guess you did ;) SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 >>>Hey! Actually I can only recall ever giving those out 3 times :p >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >No i just couldn't be arsed to look up in Google how many times i'd >given them out as i guess you did ;) I did indeed. Firefox made it easy. I hope you don't plan on lumbering me with any of them stupid points. Also, thing about google groups is the way it reminds you of things past in AGHL. Anyone remember Cory Dunkle? Civilian_Target > Also, thing about google groups is the way it reminds you of things > past in AGHL. Anyone remember Cory Dunkle? You mean, You forgot?? SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 I hereby award Civilian_Target with 1/32nd of a "you are lumbered" point. A green battle ribbon with a rotted potato emblem attached will follow shortly... Watch yer mail box..... >I did indeed. Firefox made it easy. I hope you don't plan on lumbering >me with any of them stupid points. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Civilian_Target Jack Harney AKA "Cannon Fodder" AKA "Grumpy Old Fart AKA "Certified Senior Curmudgeon" From Civ - 5 "I have the cultural tact of a Cuban Pig" points for your effort....Gracefully accepted :) >I hereby award Civilian_Target with 1/32nd of a "you are lumbered" >point. A green battle ribbon with a rotted potato emblem attached will >follow shortly... Watch yer mail box..... If 1/32nd of a point lumbers you, how much does 1 of those points weigh?? Either way, the poor postman is not going to be pleased. And as for the fractions, you're getting stingier. So I'm going to award you 15 Euro points (exchange rate: 132,299 euro points = 1 normal point) Civilian_Target > Also, thing about google groups is the way it reminds you of things > past in AGHL. Anyone remember Cory Dunkle? Of course we do - he's a noun, now! More interestingly, how many other trolls do we remember? /me checks the ol' sig catcher.... "Go f.ck your dad and a fukin giraffe" - Jason Simonelli "I KNEW u full bunch of CS is cheater u w.nker u shame!" - Wesley "Get it it rules no hiding and snipering ....." - King Shocker "It's not like we mean fag when we say fag, it's more like lame. I dunno, hard to explain. Boy do I look like an a.s now" - Andy Lee "I'm only guilty of trollilg cause AGHL SUCKS" - Brits_suck "What do I get? Serval peons who need to mis read something to the extream" - Chris Jacobs "jeez, can't you even come up with your own mindless drival?" - MenuOne "Holy shite you guys like to waste usenet bandwidth with off-topic personal BS.. I thought the Star Wars geeks were bad :(" - Mike B ___ Neil AKA HighVis You didn't get any choice quotes from fuji in there. No excuse not to. Civilian_Target You missed one! Where's the excellent quote from "Freaky" Frank Nijhorf? :) > Of course we do - he's a noun, now! > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Neil > AKA HighVis SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 > You missed one! Where's the excellent quote from "Freaky" Frank Nijhorf? :) Well, I don't count Freaky Franck as a troll... just a bit of a euro-loon... ___ Neil AKA HighVis "I ONLY LIKE SERIEUS REACTIONS!!!!!" 'Freaky' Franck Nijhorf > More interestingly, how many other trolls do we remember? > > /me checks the ol' sig catcher.... > > "Go f.ck your dad and a fukin giraffe" - Jason Simonelli I can't remember what I said to piss him off, but I definitely remember the response! :-) > "Get it it rules no hiding and snipering ....." - King Shocker I kinda miss ol' Shocky. What was his friend's name? Hulka? -- Thad ...must buy Viking game NOW... > > "Go f.ck your dad and a fukin giraffe" - Jason Simonelli > > I can't remember what I said to piss him off, but I definitely remember the > response! > :-) Fortunately, the blessed Google Groups remembers all: http://tinyurl.com/3hbkz > I kinda miss ol' Shocky. > What was his friend's name? > Hulka? And don't forget his cheating a.shole buddy 'dig'... Neil aka HighVis _________ "Get it it rules no hiding and snipering you just fight and fight like a man and Ill beat your a.s if you get it and Hulka will get it too cuz he's like rich and stuff and he doesnt have a gay cable company so he has a cable modem i dont because my cable company is gay so i am on a 56k and we can play with the UA and we'll fight you in a fight and win but lose too because digwill get it and he cheats and he's an a.shole" - King Shocker > Hey! Actually I can only recall ever giving those out 3 times :p <finds old points sig> dae/aghl Proud owner of: 20 "I corrected Bench" points 10 "Pronounciation Guru" points 5 "Royal Typo" points 5 "Monkey Related Sig/Post" points 5 "Decloaked before there were decloaking points" points 5 "I can remember the good old days of the Spectrum, C64, Atari etc" points 5 "I gave points to someone who didn't know what points were" points 4 "I bitched about BT" points 10 "I support my local DM server" points 5 "I don't use reverse psychology to get points" points 2 "AGHL Predictable Reply" points 10 "Just Fishing" points 10 'I helped The FreEk? get out of a sticky situation with my head still in-tact' points 2 'I faced the bears and came back' points 10 ultra rare "I found Capt's sig" points > Some used at a now-defunct company I worked for years ago > included 10sne1, Invu4uraqt, YamIhere, CMedbdIs, and ICU812. how about ICURYY4Me :) (or some variation of that one) SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 >Driving home from work tonight I saw this vanity licence plate >10SNE1... Took me the longest time to figure out what it actually [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > AKA "Certified Senior Curmudgeon" > From Civ - 5 "I have the cultural tact of a Cuban Pig" points for your effort....Gracefully accepted :) I head about someone, somewhere, having "3M TA3" on their liscense plate for years until the DMV or whoever figured it out. The trick is that it is intended to be read in the rear-view mirror. You should start drinking prune juice and KY jelly cocktails right now, that will make things a lot smoother. -Felatio Love > I head about someone, somewhere, having "3M TA3" on their liscense > plate for years until the DMV or whoever figured it out. The trick is > that it is intended to be read in the rear-view mirror. Hmmm... In my younger, naive days, I asked a Welsh friend what the Welsh word was for "policeman". Ecilop, he told me. It was 2 or 3 years later, when I looked in my rear view mirror, that I realised he wasa winding me up... > > I head about someone, somewhere, having "3M TA3" on their liscense > > plate for years until the DMV or whoever figured it out. The trick is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > when I looked in my rear view mirror, that I realised he wasa winding me > up... The reality is almost as amusing.. it's Heddlu (pronounced Heth-Lee, I'm pretty certain)... it's hard to get too scared when someone yells "Run! It's a Heddlu car!!" ___ Neil AKA HighVis > The reality is almost as amusing.. it's Heddlu (pronounced Heth-Lee, > I'm pretty certain)... it's hard to get too scared when someone yells > "Run! It's a Heddlu car!!" How does Heddlu become Heth-Lee (I would of pronounced it Head-Loo, or maybe Heeeeeed-Loo (with some spitting etc)). Crazy welshski's :/ > > The reality is almost as amusing.. it's Heddlu (pronounced Heth-Lee, > > I'm pretty certain)... it's hard to get too scared when someone yells [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Crazy welshski's :/ :) 'dd' is pronounced 'th', as in 'with'; A 'u', following a consonant on the end of a name, is pronounced 'ee'... as in 'Cymru Am Byth' (Wales for ever), which is pronounced 'Cum-ree am bith' ('th' as in 'think'). That's the simple stuff... :) ___ Neil AKA HighVis > 'dd' is pronounced 'th', as in 'with'; > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > :) Call me thick, but, if you can have "Cymru Am Byth" with the 'th' pronounched as 'th' ... why do you then need "dd" to also be pronounced as 'th' ? surely one of them should be redundant :) SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 > > 'dd' is pronounced 'th', as in 'with'; > > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > pronounched as 'th' ... why do you then need "dd" to also be pronounced > as 'th' ? surely one of them should be redundant :) And English has no redundancies? :p Senti proclaimed... > And English has no redundancies? :p Exactly! You should travel up north, we're all out of work up here. Where am I mother? Signaturewww.stri.tk "I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings" > > 'dd' is pronounced 'th', as in 'with'; > > 'Cum-ree am bith' ('th' as in 'think'). > Call me thick, but, if you can have "Cymru Am Byth" with the 'th' > pronounched as 'th' ... why do you then need "dd" to also be pronounced > as 'th' ? surely one of them should be redundant :) Say out loud: "With. Think. With. Think." Repeat until you can spot the difference between a hard 'th' and a soft 'th'. Then wonder which is the crazier language - one which uses the same letters for two different sounds, or one which differentiates... ;) ___ Neil AKA HighVis > Say out loud: "With. Think. With. Think." > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Then wonder which is the crazier language - one which uses the same > letters for two different sounds, or one which differentiates... ;) The one that uses 2 totally different combinations of letters for 2 very similar sounds? ;) SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 You mean like CENT SCENT SENT???? >> Say out loud: "With. Think. With. Think." >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >The one that uses 2 totally different combinations of letters for 2 very >similar sounds? ;) > > Then wonder which is the crazier language - one which uses the same > > letters for two different sounds, or one which differentiates... ;) > > The one that uses 2 totally different combinations of letters for 2 very > similar sounds? ;) Makes sure you don't get them mixed up then, don't it? ___ Neil AKA HighVis > Makes sure you don't get them mixed up then, don't it? Your englandish is terrible, neil. -- David davidfirewater(a)hotmail.com >> > 'dd' is pronounced 'th', as in 'with'; > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Repeat until you can spot the difference between a hard 'th' and a soft >'th'. Unfortunately, "with" can be pronounced with either a hard or soft 'th', but I can't think of an appropriate replacement. Oh, wait a minute. Say out loud: "The. Thee. The. Thee." That should work. John L. Friese >> Say out loud: "With. Think. With. Think." Those often use the same "th" sound, depending on what other words are in the sentence. > Say out loud: "The. Thee. The. Thee." The "th" in those words sound the same to me. Try "think" and "this". SignatureBold aka John Twernbold jtwernbold (at) yahoo.com "Even my English friend are sometimes saying 'Ramon, what are you say, we are not understood you!' my England is so good!!! THIS IS TRUE!!" > > Say out loud: "The. Thee. The. Thee." > > The "th" in those words sound the same to me. > Try "think" and "this". I thought the same... your example works for me, though... :) ___ Neil AKA HighVis >Oh, wait a minute. > >Say out loud: "The. Thee. The. Thee." > >That should work. Bastards. Its not supposed to come out as De, Dee, is it? Civilian_Target > >Say out loud: "The. Thee. The. Thee." > > > >That should work. > > Bastards. Its not supposed to come out as De, Dee, is it? Lol. When are you Irish gonna learn to talk properly? "Dirty tree and a turd";) -- David davidfirewater(a)hotmail.com >Unfortunately, "with" can be pronounced with either a hard or soft 'th', >but I can't think of an appropriate replacement. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >John L. Friese Hmmm...in my neighborhood, "with" is pronounced with a 'T'. As in, ' Yo, I'm down wit it '. :-) Erik |
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