Okay, maybe not. But these gems came up in chat today.
<Coldfire1> Well… Ukelele Ike has an afair with a small farm animal. That’s all I’m saying.
<Coldfire1> Manhattan secretly reads socialist literature in his spare time, and has posters of horses on his bedroom wall.
<Coldfire1> DrMatrix was a Nazi doctor during WWII. He lives in Argentine under a false name.
<Coldfire1> Tubadiva runs an alligator breeding farm in Florida. She has $4 billion in the bank.
<Coldfire1> CajunMan posts from a log cabin in the Northern Territories.
<Coldfire1> UncleBeer dresses up in drag when he goes to the shooting range, something about a childhood trauma he’s dealing with.
<Coldfire1> Corrado owns a Volkswagen dealership in Atlanta, Georgia. Hence the name.
Help out an IRC ignoramus - do you have to connect to a particular IRC server to get to it, or is there some way to search for it on different IRC servers, or does the channel exist across the board?
In IRC, you first have to connect to a server, a computer on which a number of “channels” are hosted. #straightdope is one such channel (all channel names are prepended by the #, incidentally. They weren’t just being perverse or odd or making it hard to find).
After connecting to an Undernet server, you should get a message telling you that you’ve connected. There will be a text bar toward the bottom of the window where you can type. In that bar is where you should type /join #straightdope (in your post, you put a space after the # - don’t do that) to pop into the channel. You can also type /nick twickster to change your nickname.
Assuming you’re using mIRC (a popular IRC program for Windows), someone else will have to walk you through connecting to a server, as I haven’t used it in some time, and don’t remember exactly how it works.
