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Subject: REL : ATXF Dictionary
From: "$2" <stephend@orgo.cad.gu.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 14:33:15 -0800
Organization: The Blazing Penguins of Death

Long await, overedited and underpriced.

$teve2 presents (with a little help from Annette)

			The ATXF Dictionary

And now, the words.......


ADMINestrual cycle - The period over which the FAQS appear. 
	"The ANTIFAQ has a 14 day ADMINestrual cycle.

allegorriecal - having the tendency to hold involved discussions with
yourself on USENET.

alysh - a strap for restraining other ATXFers . 
	"Annette had to keep Steve on a tight Alysh when Nina was wearing her
swimsuit".

alyshold - the temporary right to use another person's body.
	"I don't know how he did it, but Waz managed to get an alyshold over
Leith's body for the duration of the last Sydney gathering"

angusto - vigorous enjoyment of the quotewar
	"Annette and Steve were posting with quite visible angusto as they
recited the Carpenters lyrics"

angustration - the act of stuffing one capsicum inside another.

annette - what a tightrope walker should never perform without.

ATXFort - the amount of work put into a REL post.
	"Holly appears to have put a lot of ATXFort into her weekly summary of
the episode"

bahlistics - the study of the projectile like posting style of Rachael
Bahl
	"We've done the autopsy on the newbie, and we're sending the post down
to bahlistics to see whether we can get a match on the pun that fired
it"

bahlpark figure - a rough estimate of the danger of retaliation from
Rachael 
	"I'd say Carl's got a 90% chance of getting hit, but that's just a
Bahlpark figure"

barlingual - the ability to flame in two languages - crude and polite
	
barliniment - any liquid used for rubbing into wounds or burns.

cancermantra - any short sharp slogan uttered by an Xfiles character
that will appear on a t-shirt

carlpentry - the manual labour of building something out of nothing,
using wolfgangplanks or similar material.

christmus - a narrow strip of common posters which joins two newsgroups
together 
	"Chris H and Alys are part of the christmus between ATXF and ASFB5"

danieltide (yuletide) the festival of innuendo
	"Tis the season to be smutty tra la la la, le la la la!"

derekognition - to give attention to one who clamours for it loudly

derektify - to correct spelling errors using the Dregs Patented Spelling
System (TM)

dregsclamation - to punctuate with creative spelling

finlaysonnet - a limerick about ATXF which exceeds the maximum number of
lines.

geneal- mildly pleasant ATXF post

geneteel - well bred, refined

geneuflect - bowing to a superior argument in a newsgroup thread.
	"Carl will never geneuflect to Rachael in the body image thread"

geneuine - real or true 

hoffmannerism - a distinguishing posting style by which an author is
recognised, even if they are using an alias
	"$teve2 recognised Carl's hoffmannerisms even when he masqueraded as
Nimrod's Son "

hoffmanslaughter - the accidental death of an avatar or alias
	
hollucination - to see pictures of GA where there are no pictures of GA.

hollyer than thou - a self righteousness concerning a person's level of
Scully worship  
	"Ever since he set up the OBSSES site, Steve's had this air of hollyer
than thou about him"

hollyfactory - the ability to sense merchandising from a distance by
recognising the smell of the ink used in photos of GA.

hollygarchy - the chosen few who rule the merchandising court

holster - leather case for merchandise attached to belt

jaggernaught a large and destructive force that attacks blind worship.

kirstyeach - to impart knowledge of the relationship between scully and
mulder

lament  v.t.  to be distressed at leaving oneself open to innuendo.

lamprey n.    the rest of ATXF.

leithargic - lack of energy after marathon friends < clap clap clap clap
clap!> session

lonegunmeningitis - a seriously diseased obsession with conspiracies

lyndally - to waste time or trifle with in a love affair.

lyndalmation - any one of a breed of black and white spotted hamsters.

marcustard - a sweet, lumpy and hard to wade through KISS post

marcustom - the generally accepted polite newsgroup behaviour

mattabolic - the breakdown of complex posts into simple ones and the
simple posts into complex ones.

mattador - inexplicable desire to like Matt (see stevedore).

mattalurgy - the study of matts.

mattamorphosis - change or transformation from human to muppet.

matternal - to be a complete mother.

mattress - the floppy stuff on M. Curr's head.

mattriculate - to  be accepted as qualified to enter the Church of Gumby

mattsermind - the brains behind ATXF newsgroup events. 
	"Annette mattserminded the first interstate ATXF conference".

missyecure - free from ATXF related anxiety.

mulderply - to increase the number of believers

muldertude -  a great number of believers

ninarcotic - a highly addictive Japanese drug.
	"The way $teve's behaving looks like he's high on the ninarcotic again"

pambition - the strong desire to win an X-Award

pamelaborate - to carefully explain ATXF injokes to the unaware.

pameliorate - to make conditions on the newsgroup better by changing the
subject header

pamnesia - to never be able to remember the real names behind the
aliases 
	"I can remember her as quokka, but not her real name"

polykettchen - multiple rooms equipped for the preparing and serving of
television rating surveys

pratternalism - the principle of treating Lyndal as a child.

quinntessential - the perfect example of an ATXFer's behaviour 
	"The post about Holly in leather is almost the quinntessential $teve2
lust post"

robinsignia - having a distinguishing sig of authority and honour

robwhytematter - part of the central nervous system especially the brain
made up of nerve fibres dedicated to TV viewing.

roseyquel - the followup post from hell

scullyegal - within the laws of nature and science

scullyegion - the followers of Dana Scully

scullyward - towards Scully

skinnervous - uneasy feeling that you are losing your hair

slifoxiliary - supporting or giving explanations to those who came in
late.

stevacuate - getting the REL away from a Steve.

stevacuee - someone saved from a Steve.

steveangelic - seeking to convert others to their way of Steving.

stevedore - inexplicable desire to like Steves.

steveiscerate - to remove the important bits of a post.

steventual - an inevitable occurance of something that was going to be
caused by a Steve.

stevil doer - own who does Steves.

stevil eye - a stare believed to be able to cause harm to Newbies.

stevince - to indicate or show a pun clearly.

stevoke - to cause a quotewar, or pun fight.

stevolution - the process from REL to MUTATOTHREAD.

turtelepresence - the act of attending a gathering by phone.

vanessoteric - pertaining to the magic of the Xfiles newsgroup

wolfgangplank - a form of material, impervious to cutting, flaming or
nailing used in carlpentry

Xenuclear - The reaction to the proposal for 18 headers.

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