Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power? Message-ID: <36579@sun.uucp> Date: 15 Dec 87 18:50:50 GMT References: <4124@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <4459@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1150@sugar.UUCP> <139@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 20 > In article <953@pur-phy> (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer) writes: > >So what happened to this "zoot custom" O/S. Was it just shelved, Sigh. This was in response to an earlier article that mentioned a "high zoot custom O/S"... The original should have been spelled "high-zoot custom..." High-zoot is a back pointer to a 40s style of counterculture high fashion (originally amongst Los Angeles Hispanic males, manifesting itself in elaborately-cut suits with *wide* lapels, loud *wide* ties, full baggy cut pants and jacket and varying amounts of shiny chain(s) dangling about. Sort of the absolute opposite of a military uniform of the period. Therefore, a "high-zoot" mumble is an elaborate, fancy, out-of- the-ordinary mumble. Now back to our regular...um...programming. :] seh