<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 20, 2014, at 9:14 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Matthias Felleisen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class=""><br><div><div>... I will create a slimed down version of big-bang, little-poof? <br> </div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I couldn't let this go by. It's probably because I'm brain-dead, but first I wondered why Matthias was going to create a version of big-bang specifically for the "slime" family of games (Slime Volleyball, Slime Soccer, Slime Basketball, etc.--which reminds me, I haven't seen those for a few years) and then I wondered why he was hurling a homophobic slur at Daniel Prager.</div> <div><br></div><div>Needless to say, after re-parsing, re-pronouncing a vowel, and noticing a semantic link I had missed the first time, the sentence made much more sense. ;-D</div><div><br></div><div>And now I go back to writing code in Java, which could be the cause of the brain fart that just occurred...</div> </div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>Boy this was a cultural education. I have no clue about any of these things ... but now I do. Dang, and it's just an obvious reflection transformation on two nouns. Argh, people and spelling skills. </div><br></body></html>