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(idea) by FlameBoy (1 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Jul 11 2000 at 13:19:13

Inspired By Alt F4

Back in the days when talkers were prevellant, we didn't used to have platform specific pranks, so much as universal ones. On NUTS based talkers commands were entered by typing a . before the command name. If a newbie came on and asked for help we'd always say,

"Type .h for help."

However, if the newbie was already proving to be a pain or if they said they couldn't be bothered to read the help, we always had a way to get them.

"Or you can type .q h for quick help."

.q was short for .quit


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