fox@fury
More wired than thou
Friday, May 25, 2001
There was a Jeopardy category last night called 'CRAC', where each of the answers was all or part of a chatroom acronym. They featured such acronyms as "HAND" "TTFN" "RTM" and "IANAL".

Not a single contestant got a single question right.

It's ironic that in the ideal Jeopardy contestant we have a subculture so introverted, reading reference texts and memorizing vice-presidential trivia, that they totally out-dull the geeks who spend their time relating to the world via chat rooms instead of FTF.

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