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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:37:36 -0400
From: "Walker . . . Texas Ranger" <tjwalker@ic.sunysb.edu>
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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Charles Lee wrote:

> Well, since we're talking in Quake related newsgroups, I think it's
> necassary to define 'frag' in accordance to Quake.  Since the days of
> multiplayer Doom, the term 'frag' has meant the same thing as 'kill', i.e.
> Player1 fragged Player2.  Now, if 'frag' was synonomous /w fuck, the
> previous statement would equate to: Player1 fucked Player2, and that is
> out of the boundaries of normal first person action games.  So, Its rather
> obvious that 'frag'='kill' not 'fuck'.
> 

	Is the object big?  (relatively)
	Does it frag a lot? (too much IMO)
	Is it a gun?        (duh)

	So therefore it's a Big Fragging Gun

	I like to think of it as a Brainless Fairy's Gun. 


> "Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism.  The anarchist
>  is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the
>  exploitation of man by man." -Daniel Guerin, Anarchism

	Isn't that what Marx wrote about? Then came along Stalin, Oops!
off the subject again!
	

--
Lawmot

