http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030110.html

K3W1357!!!

Does this mean that jimthedog can now talk behind our backs right before our eyes? 'n mebbe Jazzo and Rubrick, too?

...leading to an ASCII-art revival? Some of the examples look harder to generate than the original English lettering!

I so totally don't understand what's going on here.

harder to generate than the original

Duh! The point isn't to be easy to generate; it's to be incomprehensible.

What the article doesn't mention is the scorn heaped on wannabes who use l33t. One of the surest ways to get viciously flamed in Usenet is to use leet - it's seen as a pathetic attempt to be kewl.

leet = gleet look that one up at http://hdd.rox.com/?entry=gleet

The point isn't to be easy to generate; it's to be incomprehensible

I guess that's my problem. i try 2 b efficient, and with that goal i can c y it mite b uzd. Obscurity for the sake of obscurity, on the other hand...

w3ll i11 b bgrd

stalz

mebbe Jazzo

Don't count on it. I've never used it, nor has anyone I know. Had I not jumped onto this board two and a half years ago, I might have ended up going off into that world. Might have taught myself Flash too and I'd be in graphic design now instead of architecture . . .

Had I not jumped onto this board two and a half years ago, I might have ended up going off into that world.

So when you create your "Parthenon", Jazzo, be sure to inscribe AWAD 2000 on the cornerstone in tribute!

So when you create your "Parthenon", Jazzo, be sure to inscribe AWAD 2000 on the cornerstone in tribute!

And with a statue of the Great Anu inside of course.

And with a statue of the Great Anu inside of course.

Yeahbut®, careful about those statues, Jazzo...they have a way of making-their-way to the British Isles dubbed Elgin. oh-oh, did I just open up a can of worms?

>can of worms?

Nope, but it is the final, clinching proof that you've lost your marbles.