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dMw Chit Chat => The Beer Bar => It's my Birthday! => Topic started by: spiritus on May 07, 2008, 02:50:42 PM

Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: spiritus on May 07, 2008, 02:50:42 PM
3'rd of may 1978 did the first spam over the internett go out to all users (400 of them) :blink:
It was from a old computer firm named DEC.
And was about the new pc they were relesing.
 
just to inform ppl that were wondering about wierd facts :woot2:
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: no peanuts on May 07, 2008, 05:00:40 PM
sweet, another piece of random knowledge comes my way. :)

I hadnt heard about this before and googled a little. supposedly this is the message (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sa_steve/2466278969/sizes/o/in/pool-22294126@N00/)


Anyway, happy spam-day! :taz:
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: Le Rouge on May 07, 2008, 06:42:39 PM
indeed intersting;
offtopic: peanuts - I'm still after your peanuts following yday's carnage.
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: no peanuts on May 07, 2008, 09:26:23 PM
Quote from: Le Rouge;230890indeed intersting;
offtopic: peanuts - I'm still after your peanuts following yday's carnage.

You can try, but I'm not going to make it easy :devil:

and it wasn't really off-topic, we are talking about SPAm here :narnar:
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: Luminance on May 07, 2008, 10:07:22 PM
knowlegde is power, though i wonder if that info add anything to my power :(
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: no peanuts on May 08, 2008, 04:53:00 PM
Quote from: Luminance;230898knowlegde is power, though i wonder if that info add anything to my power :(

There's a "good" german saying in regards to knowledge being power. I know some of the dutchies will be able to understand it.

Wissen ist Macht.
Weiß nix, macht nix!

It wouldn't come over properly if I tried translating it, so I wont even bother :narnar:
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: DuVeL on May 08, 2008, 05:18:34 PM
Quote from: no peanuts;230942There's a "good" german saying in regards to knowledge being power. I know some of the dutchies will be able to understand it.
 
Wissen ist Macht.
Weiß nix, macht nix!
 
It wouldn't come over properly if I tried translating it, so I wont even bother :narnar:

Knowledge is power
Know nothing, doesn't matter.
 
Atleast that''s how interpretate it...
Although "macht nix" could also be; doesn't do anything...
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: Le Rouge on May 08, 2008, 06:42:47 PM
another way to translate it:
 
Knowledge is power;
Know nothing - do nothing.
(although in Slang, "macht nichts" means indeed "whatever" or "never mind")
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: no peanuts on May 09, 2008, 11:17:45 PM
yeh, it's a play with words. with "macht" having different meanings.

so....enlighten me, who speaks or understands german?

we're wandering further into the land of "off-topic"
(http://brettduncan.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/spam-c07.jpg)
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: Bk on May 10, 2008, 01:58:34 AM
Quote from: no peanuts;231082yeh, it's a play with words. with "macht" having different meanings.

so....enlighten me, who speaks or understands german?

we're wandering further into the land of "off-topic"
(http://brettduncan.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/spam-c07.jpg)

I do (within the conext of the thread (spam), this is a valid contribution).
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: Alma on May 10, 2008, 09:26:08 AM
Quote from: no peanuts;231082yeh, it's a play with words. with "macht" having different meanings.
 
so....enlighten me, who speaks or understands german?

i speak a bit. learning it at school
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: DuVeL on May 11, 2008, 10:40:05 AM
I speak German. We got to study it at our schools up here next to English.
Title: (un)Happy Birthday Spam!
Post by: KKND on May 12, 2008, 11:18:20 AM
Whe never had German on school only English...bit weird..:flirty: