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:% The Leech Dictionary %:
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:% Written by The Blue Buccaneer %:
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:% The Rebel Alliance MegCatLine : [615] - 942 - 6670 %:
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:% Dedicated to %:
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:% The Rocker %:
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:% Who boldly leads our neverending battle against the leeches of the world %:
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:% Franklin's Tower CatSend : [804] - 784 - 3884 %:
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Before we begin with The Leech Dictionary, I would like to take a moment
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to list all of the known anti-leech publications available today. This list
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should help you to make sure that you are kept up to date on the many leech
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problems of today, as well as advise you on ways to stop and remove them.
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A Real Pirates' Guide (Volumes: 1,2, & 3)
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A Real Cat Pirates' Guide
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A Real Sysop's Guide
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A Real CatLine Sysops' Guide
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How to be a Leech
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Losers
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The Leech at Work
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The Leech Dictionary
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True Leech Hazard
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What Leeches and Other Losers do on Saturday Nights
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101 Nasty Things to do to your Local Leech
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The Removal of Leeches
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[ Others may be available, but have not come my way as of yet. ]
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NOTE: When writing a LEECH file, be sure to spell LEECH right! (not leach)
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LEECH: [Definition as given by New Webster's Dictionary -Vest Pocket Edition]
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Noun: Blood sucking aquatic worm.
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LEECH: [Definition as given by The Sysops of America]
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Thing: Ware sucking loser.
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Hopefully, you are all fully aware of what a leech is by this point. However,
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for those of you who have been lucky enough to have been totally uneffected by
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them, here is my brief description and definition of a leech:
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A leech as one (most commonly a loser), who calls the various Lines of our
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great country and sucks all the wares. Sucking all the wares may include
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everything from merely calling 20 times; uploading Cat-Fur and sucking through
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that; to adding 2167 sectors from your Rana // and switching disks all day.
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Now, here is where I would like to make a point that several of the other
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Anti-Leech File authors have failed to neglect.
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At one time or another, every pirate was a leech. Whether it was some kind-
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hearted local who supported your efforts until you grew to support yourself,
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or you downloaded all the newest from an AE or CatSend line, so that you could
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have something that was tradeable, you
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were all a leech at some point in time. Now, the differance between our
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leeches of today and the leech you were a long, long time ago, is this:
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You stopped. You got the new wares and then used your engineuity to trade
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and keep yourself up to date with the wares and became a much better pirate.
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Hopefully you learned the policies, guidelines, customs, and unspoken rules of
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piracy, thus fully breaking your ties with your leech era. Maybe, being the
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good pirate that you are, you rewarded those who helped you in your rise to
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power. I, personally, sent a box of blanks to some of the people that were
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exceptionally helpful to me. And then to some of the Sysops who helped me, I
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uploaded till their drives overflowed. And for those pirates of yesteryear
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who had declined, I sent them whatever they needed to get back on their feet.
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The leeches of today, however, are finding it simplier to remain leeches. They
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continue to suck the wares and never rise to the places of higher piracy. And
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it is those leeches who need to be removedddestroyedooblitteratedtterminated
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given-the-axeeetc.... [ You get my drift? ]
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THE LEECH DICTIONARY
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<Sorry you had to wait so long>
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Before the long listing of those words to watch out for, let me say some-
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thing about the confusion about the words adopted into the "pirates slang".
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Now, piracy has been around a good long while. I, myself, have been around
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since before the opening of The Mines of Moria. I have Data-Capture 4.0
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captures of the early fazes of the BBS. I was user #23! (By the way, at that
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time I was also paying for my calls and mail trading through The Source)
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(Yes, it was the latter part of my leachlloser era!)
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[By the way, the key to successful pirating is phreaking. There is no way in
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hell that piracy could exist (even 111000 of what it does now) with out it.
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God bless the idiots at MaBell, Sprint, MCI, Metro, and allover! ]
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Anyway, back to the sub-topic at hand. My point is this: These nice slang
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words we use and some of which have now been termed "loserslleeches slang"
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have been around for a very long time. Much longer than most of the pirates
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today. (This means any of you how started out with anything newer than a ][)
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I will admit that some of the slang has been ripped way out of proportion like
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!<00l, lAT0r, and the such. These are products of demented minds which are
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bent on devising unusual ways to type a simple word. That is not good.
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But, there has been and will always be a slang unique to piratespphreaks
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hackersaand crackers. And that slang should not be blackened because of the
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slang of the losers and leeches in our society.
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NOTE: Noone should follow "A Real ______' Guide" to the letter. And noone
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should quote from it.
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Now, here's what ole Webbie has to say about the word "slang":
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SLANG: Noun: colloquial words and phrases; jargon.
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Now "jargon", my friends, is a special vocabulary of a class, trade, or
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profession. So now we have two jargons: The Pirates' and The Losers'LLeeches'
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I think we have already been over why the two are different.
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The Pirates' jargon consists mainly of the proper English language (spelled &
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punctuated correctly - or as to the best of the ability of the pirate, which
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should be fairly good as "Real Pirates" are above the age that they are
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constantly misspelling everything). In addition to proper English, pirates
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have also addapted a slang. This slang is basically a shorthand method of
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typing some words in the proper English language. A few examples of this are:
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Warez (wares), Lozer (loser), and other substitutions of "z"""s" & "ph"""f" :
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Fone (phone), Comp (computer), and numerous abrevations which typically leave
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out the vowels: Txtfl (textfile), (you get the idea) Then there are ones like
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substituting the letter "k" for "c" as in kool & krackkkrak. Then there are
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other substitutions like putting "j" for "g" as in "majic". And then
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the standard ones like: yer (your), em (them), and doin (doing). Then we have:
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U (you), Y (yes), N (no), 2 (tottoo), b4 (before), etc. In addition are the
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"new contractions": shouldda, havta, gonna, couldda, musta, etc. Basically,
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all the slang words are a result of either phonetic, shortened, or unique ways
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of spelling the words.
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But this is taken drastically out of hand when:
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1] It is used without any sort of discretion at all.
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EX: I kalld mI brthr A krAsi loozer & hit im with de fone.
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2] It is excessively twisted.
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EX: !<00l, K00L, K-KOOL, lAt0r, and anything from the above example.
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3] It is mixed with an otherwise seemingly normal paragraph.
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EX: If I was to use any of the above in anything other than an example.
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NOTE: Cursor magic (back-spacing, twirling, jumping, etc) is dead.
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There is nothing wrong at all with using pirate slang, just so long as it
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doesn't break any of the above rules.
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At this point I have realized (as you might have also), that there is no
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real need for a long list of words that word point out a potential loser or
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leech. If you are able to understand what I have said in this textfile then
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you should be able to pick them out for yourself. Also it would not be right
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to have a specific list of words that losers and leeches use because that
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would be generalizing both the pirates and the losers leeches; and that
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would be wrong to do. So all I can say, is use your best judgement, follow
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the pointers offered in textfiles like this, and give those on the way up a
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break. (Please note that losers do not deserve the breaks that leeches on the
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way up do. A loser is totally different that a leech and should thus be
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treated so.)
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-TBB [MARCH 1, 1985] [Original file length: 38 Sectors]
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