Fnord wrote:
1) "Fnord" is a word used in newsgroup and hacker culture to indicate that someone is being ironic, humorous or surreal.
2) "Fnord" is the typographic representation of disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a worldwide conspiracy.
3) "Fnord" is a metasyntactic variable used by programmers when they are either uncertain of how to define a datum, or they intend to leverage existing data across multiple platforms.
4) "Fnord" is the name for that intoxicating period of timelessness between the tick and the tock.
I cannot escape them
No matter how I try
They wait for me everywhere
I cannot pass them by.
Driving down the street
I see "Jesus Is Lord"
And then immediately after
I hear the word "FNORD!"
Innocuous sayings and parables
And on the evening news
I hear the word "FNORD!"
And suddenly I'm confused
I sit alone in my room
And I'm feeling rather bored
I turn on the tube and guess what
I hear the word "FNORD!"
"Don't see the fnords and they won't eat you"
That's what I've heard the wise men say
But I can't get away from those beasties
There's just no Fnording way!
Dude... welcome back! We've all missed you bunches!
Guess I have to explain my own nick now... It's a reference to a character from X-Men, combining his codename ('Cyclops') with his civilian surname ('Summers'); it's a character I can relate to, for being a bit socially awkward.
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