[1306] in Humor
HUMOR: Where it's @
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Feb 15 13:57:29 1996
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:49:01 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 17:35:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
From: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: mlinksva@netcom.com (Mike Linksvayer)
TRAVEL GUIDE. The @ sign so prevalent in electronic addresses
is known as chiocciolina (little snail) in Italy, petit escargot
(little snail) in France, klammeraffe (spider monkey) in Germany,
api (shortened from apestaart, meaning monkey's tail), in the
Netherlands, kanel-bolle (a spiral-shaped cinnamon cake) in
Norway, snabel A (an A with a trunk) in Denmark, shtrudel in
Israel, cat tail or miau in Finland, an arroba in Spain (a unit of
about 25 lbs., for which it is the sign),
