basugasu

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   by basugasu 16y ago

   The earliest I can trace it back to is this post to comp.lang.ada in 1994: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/msg/7a96d45d5cc... I like how he opens with "I felt like wasting bandwidth" so here's a funny story. Little could he
2. 2.▲
   by basugasu 18y ago

   Maybe something like 「金持ちのダンディなおじちゃん」
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   by basugasu 18y ago

   This is actually an old idea from early in Wikipedia's history: "It was hoped that scientists would sometimes drop by wikipedia, and start a stub or short article on something they had researched, prior to it being accepted in a peer review
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   by basugasu 18y ago

   I think you mean 申し訳ありません (inexcusable). Though I've tried using 申し訳あります (literally, there is an excuse) before as a joke to lighten the mood when apologizing. I'm not sure they got it.