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  • strudel
    n. Common (spoken) name for the at-sign (`@', ASCII 1000000) character. See {ASCII} for other synonyms.


    •  View Definition: fool file, the 

    fool file, the

    [USENET] n. A notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever. There is a subgenre of sig blocks that consists of the header "From the fool file" followed by some quote the poster wishes to represent as an immortal gem of dimwittery; for this to be really effective, the quote has to be so obviously wrong as to be laughable. More than one USENETter has achieved an unwanted notoriety by being quoted in this way.