On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:11:41PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I registered the domain 'perlnuns.org' a long time ago but it never really > > got going due to a decided lack of women and interest. It was likely for > > the best though as perl already has enough of a religious and cultish > > cachet. > And if you're depicting oneself as a monk, this could be an avatari of > that awesome fellow of Robin Hood, (what's his name?), who prefers > beverages to prayers. > On the other hand, nobody wants to be a nun.
This made me wonder, what is the origin of the term "Monk"? http://info.astrian.net/jargon/ (which seems to be an old version of the jargon file) doesn't know of an entry, and comes up mostly with stuff for "monkey" on a search. Even http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/lexicon.html doesn't list it. I'm guessing that it derives from the ASR => SDM thing, and the way in which sysadmins got called "Monks" as a result of that anagram. Anyone know this? Curious of Chiswick. -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002
