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The following is a list of SFFG-related terms and phrases. Please, if you can help define a term do so. Also, correct any inaccuracies and add any terms you feel merit inclusion here. And, of course, substantial definitions are encouraged.

Also -- I'm going to try to do a GeologicTimeLine that some of this stuff should fit into.

“ding”

The sound of being hit in the crotch. If someone gets hit in the crotch and it does not itself make a "ding" sound, it is the obligation of onlookers to cry out, "ding!" OR The sound of a new level in World of Warcraft.

“I nominate Pete”

Pete Crowley was a graduate student who graduated JMU in Spring '96. . As a joke, he was nominated for several SFFG offices for the next year. Since then it has been a traditional running gag to 'nominate Pete' for, more or less, everything. Guild President, Feast God, Madicon Chair, someone to host a party, someone to organize fund raisers, etc. You name it, someone has nominated Pete for it.

“It won’t me”

The response when Nick (Nitrogen, Auggie) Hurston was confronted about infidelity at Feast. The young man in question had been seen by many in the company of a young lady who was not his significant other. He and she later disappeared into the woods or a tent. That night, his significant other wandered around the camp asking if he had been seen. The next morning, she asked if he had been with someone else. His response: "It won't me." She believed him.

"The ground is ... hard"

During a Vampire LARP, a player was trying to escape from combat because his character was hopelessly outnumbered. His only avenue of escape, however, was to jump out a 4th floor window, so out the window he went. As his badly wounded character fell, the Storyteller reminded the player that he hadn't quite escaped yet as he would still take damage from the fall. 'No problem,' the player said, going into the standard trait bidding, ' I am resilient.' Quoth the Storyteller - 'The ground is ... hard.' 'Okay,' the player continued, momentarily thinking that he had enough stamina related traits to get out of this, 'I am stalwart.' Quoth the Storyteller - 'The ground is ... hard.' The player, realizing that his character couldn't take anymore damage and still be able to move, began drasping at straws. 'Okay, I have tumbling, so I am nimble.' Quoth the Storyteller - 'The ground is ... hard.' Finally coming to the conclusion that he could not outbid the ground, the player decided to go ahead and soak as best he could and hope for the best. The fall did enough damage to incapacitate the character, but he spent enough willpower to crawl off the sidewalk onto a patch of grass and Earthmeld before his enemies got to him.

• Was this also the larp where my character personality was determined by which action figure I was holding at the time? -BJ
• I believe this is the time when Josh Leake's character was being a bad Gangrel. In fact, he didn't fully get a chance to earthmeld. I believe that I shot him in the back (or staked him?) and knocked him into incap. -Bart
• You shot me. You weren't desperate enough to jump out a third story window to stake me. Shotgun at twenty yards. And all because I just wanted a little taste... - Josh

“TM”

Usually added on to the words "Cold Beverages" i.e. Will there be Cold Beverages TM? It means one of those beverages with an extra kick. (DUH -- ALCOHOLIC.) This practice arose to conceal the discussion of such beverages in Guild correspondence, such as meeting minutes, because 'SFFG does not condone the consumption of alcoholic beverages' ... at least as far as JMU knows anyway.

"To Moderation!"

The official toast of RichardRush. At one point during my freshman year, when I spent 75-80% of my time drinking, Cat Nix gave me a tarot reading. I was, of course, drinking at the time. The only conclusive thing the reading came up with was that I exhibited moderation in my life. There wasn't much I could say to that other than to lift my beer and toast "To Moderation!"

"To Rodney"

At Feast '96, during the Feast on Saturday Night RodneyMorris had a tall glass of Captian Morgan's Silver spiced run at the table which he left unguarded for a few moments. Chelle Grubb and John "Sex God" Cooley grabbed Rodney's rum and proceeded to make a very loud toast to Rodney, which Rodeny didn't hear clearly because he was in the Feast hall getting more food. Chelle and John finished the toast, took a swig of the rum, and passed it to the next person at the table who exclaimed 'to Rodney' and also took a swig and passed it on. Rodney finally realized that the reason he kept hearing people yelling his name outside was because they were drinking his run. However, by the time he got back to his seat, the glass had made it's way to a different table. He began wandering between the tables trying to figure out who had his glass, still not realizing that whoever was yelling 'to Rodney' was the person with his glass. He finally figured it out and got his glass back, but the majority of his rum had already found it's way into the stomachs of the majority of the Guild.

8 Hour Version of Akira

AKA 'the 6 hour version of Akira', this plain looking video tape could be found in the video collection at Malfeas. While the white sticker label said nothing but 'Akira', the tape contained hard core porn. Pat Kempter was told that the tape actually did contain a special director's cut of Akira. He watched the 6.5 hours worth of porn on fast-forward waiting for Akira to start. Also see "Pat Stories".

Anime Night

A night where many of us weirdos get together and read subtitles because most of us don't speak Japanese.

BB

Bulletin Board. A old school method of internet correspondence. The SFFG BB was hosted on the JMU Vax system and was the ancestor of the Web Board.

Brass Turkey, The

1. The world’s greatest urinal.

2. Either of the two remaining (possibly of four) statues of turkeys marking the county boundaries of Rockingham County (Harrisonburg is in the middle of Rockingham) along Route 11. North marking the boarder with Shenandoah, south marking the boarder with Augusta. East and west, along Route 33 would have been removed many years ago, but I'm sure that there is proof somewhere that an ancient oldbie has them.

Cabbage

The aftermath of Feast '97 (see also: Turkey Smarm). Some of the leftovers from that Feast included a box of cabbage, which (along with most of the other leftovers) ended up in Malfeas, because no one else wanted it. Somewhere along the way, some dirty laundry got thrown on top of the box. Out of sight, out of mind. The forgotten cabbage began to rot, but no one really noticed: we all figured it was just an accumulating "guy smell" and bought more plug-ins and burned more incense. Laundry day revealed its presence, and it was quickly tossed.

• Actually, it was never in a fridge. You're thinking of the Turkey Smarm. It was at the end of Ping! bed, gently rotting away. -Bart
• A careful rereading of that definition will reveal that, at no time, was the cabbage described to be in a fridge. -Rush

Cee Cee Cee Ceee Ceee Ceeeeeeee

This was something of a Guild anthem for a while, at least while CC was President. Usually sung on sight of the Guild mascot (see below), it is CC's name sung to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner.

CC

CC’s nutsack/Guild Mascot

See also CCsBalls?.

Chatter

a bulletin board on the old JMU VAX system. Never affiliated with SFFG, but for a while in the great Venn Diagram of geekdom, SFFG and Chatter mostly overlapped. Chatter was once a place where those of great wit could match that wit against others in outrageous insult contests and flame wars, display that wit in the form of amusing stories, poems, essays, or other forms, and those without wit to try to "take over" Chatter while everyone else laughed at and/or pitied them. As of 2000, Chatter has been resurrected on the Web: http://www.bbchatter.org/

Chain of Shame

Don't ask... You'll know what it is when you become a part of it. By then it is too late. Hey, I'm in it, and damn proud of it.

• The funny part is, ever since July 20, 2001, Meg's part of it too. :) I consider that one of my finer bragging rights. -BJ
• Hate to say this, BJ, but I think Omar may have beat you to that... Lucifer
• Nope, Omar's connection was KT, and she came about AFTER Meg. -BJ
• I must agree with him here...though some have argued that chronology doesn't matter, I argue that it does...I don't want to be associated with that chain any longer than I must.... -Meg

Cold Beverages™/Sprite -

A euphemism for alcohol. As SFFG does not condone, encourage, or allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages at Guild-related functions, participants are warned to restrict their drinking to Cold Beverages™.

Couch of no-sex

Originally brought to Malfeas by BartGriffiths, this couch (which was extremely comfortable) followed him from Malfeas to his next apartment (whatever it was called). Then, it was given to Scott, who had it for a year before moving into Chernobyl. After Chernobyl, this couch was placed by the dumpster at Olde Mill. Whereupon, someone (vaguely known by JeffBartlett?) asked "Are you throwing that away? Can we have it?" So, it didn't die, except to SFFG. The name comes from Bart threatening the other residents of Malfeas that there was to be NO SEX ON THE COUCH.

• And here I thought it was because EVERYONE had had sex on it! -Anonymous.
• Well that's what it got evolved to after Jonah and Scott claimed it from the Towers. Ummm...I have no idea how it got the name of the Couch of No Sex. I thought it got that name during Chernobyl. -Bart
• Actually, the guy I gave it to was the son of someone who worked for my father in El Salvador. The guy was a giant walking prick, and when he asked if he could have it, I thought of all the smarm, and the history around/on that couch. And I said "yes," with a smile so broad it hurt my cheeks. -Jeff

Crotch Beer

Legal use of Cold Beverages™ for underage drinkers. Hold between legs after being kicked by Bart.

• Corona is the preferred crotch beer, right Paolo :) -Bart

Dak

Short for Daquiri, or a party of Chatterites at which strawberry daquiris are the primary beverage. A full definition would take pages and pages, but basically Dak parties, or Daks, started off as the occasional thursday-night gatherings of Chatterites. They were held Thursday nights because Chatter was made up of people of many different social groups who had their own parties to go to on the weekends. The parties were eventually moved to Fridays as they became more wild/hedonistic yet at the same time partiers started caring more about making it to their Friday morning classes. Some traditions at Daks included themes (begun in Fall 93...I'd say the last real themed dak was the Jungle Dak in...M2K?), the midnight toast, daktizing and benediction (in the name of the blender...), and general hedonism.

• I thought the "In the name of the blender" was the blessing and the benediction was "Here's to you and here's to me and here's to friends we'll always be...." - Deb

Disdick

Disdick on your wiki!

Eat Spleen

A memorable padded battle axe, whose blade proclaimed it +4 to backhanding.

End, The

6E Holly Court, the apartment of Doug (Joker) Campbell, John (Omar) Drummond, and Cole (The Sex Footman) Hartson. Site of many Dak Nites and other assorted baccinalia. John (Murpes) Capriotti and Nick (Dreldragon) Silberstien were other notable erstwhile residents, as was Wave, *SNAP*!

Experimental Ant Spray

A 'gift' from JoshLeake? to the Malfeans to help deal with an ant problem in the suite. The cans of spray contained very ominous warnings about dangerous side effects, and we were all fairly certain that exposure to it would make us all sterile.

• If you sprayed it on your feet they would tingle for about 10-20 min. -Bart
• What really caught my eye was the label stating that it was still pending final approval from the gov'ment. - Josh

Feast

SFFG's annual Fall trip into the woods. Well, usually into a fairly landscaped Scout camp with a Feast hall and platform tents. Various events include a LARP, padded weapons contests, Battle of the Log, and other variable contests (which have included theivery, archery, knife-throwing, darts, riddles, poise, and treasure-hunting, in different years). The main event is a huge Feast Saturday night. The majority of people wear garb of some kind, but this is not required.

• I (Meg) wrote a long description of this somewhere else...isn't it still posted somewhere? Give me a link, someone!

Feast God

The person who is in charge of organizing Feast. This title was created by Luna and Cat in 95 I think, before they decided they couldn't do it and Chelle and Meg took over as Feast Goddesses. Before that it was "Feast Coordinator." I much prefer the sound of God or Goddess.

Filking

1. The music and singing of science fiction and fantasy fandom. The word originates as a misspelling of "folksinging" as "filksinging" at an early science fiction and fantasy convention in the 1950's. Often characterized by parodies and mutant lyrics. The Feast campfire is a good place to learn about filking. (I would argue that what we do around the Feast campfire is not filking, because we do not alter the lyrics of the folk songs we sing. Filksongs, as I understand the term, need to have heavily modified lyrics with sci fi or fantasy themes. (see http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/songs/mutants.html )

2. Alternatively, filking is the musical equivelent of fan fiction - for instance, an amature rendition of the music in the apendices of any Mercedes "misty" Lackey novel.

Flavor

Frankie Whipsword

A really, really long padded sword that was extremely difficult to block because the PVC would then bend around the competitor's blade to tap the opponent anyway. I'm not sure, but I think this sword is single-handedly responsible for the need for weapons to be inspected and approved by whoever runs the padded weapons competition at Feast.

Gallery? Tie!

If the outcome of a Battle of the Log contest is at all debatable, the

Judge may call for the opinion of onlookers. In this case, tradition holds that the onlookers (the gallery) cries "tie" in order to see further carnage.

Gaming Nazi

Mike Morrison also: Movie Nazi

Gamer's Punch

see GamersPunch?

God Squad

Grafitti Party

A party at which everyone wears a plain white t-shirt and brings at least one marker. Then everyone writes on eachother's shirts. Anything goes, and reading the back of one's shirt at the end of the night was always interesting. Grafitti parties were held annually from 1993-1997 at 4-E Holly Court, no matter who the residents were, near the end of the year, until no one involved with Chatter or SFFG lived there anymore.

The Haven

on the old SFFG BB on the VAX, DaveSeletyn? once pondered the possibility of vampiric animals, titling his post "Sasha the Vampire Cat." This was the cat living at the home of DaveSeletyn?, Megasus, and Andrea. The nickname stuck, and the residents' extrapolating ways decided the home was the Haven of Sasha the Vampire Cat.

IGPW

Inter-Galactic Professional Wrestling. A play-by-email wrestling league founded by Ben Rodgers. Though currently on hiatus, the league webpage is still up, and hosts some very, very entertaining wrestling cards. See also: Inter-Galactic Professional Wrestling

Internet Canadian Mail Order Groom (ICMOG)

Mike Timonin

LARP

Live-Action Role-Playing. Let me 'splain for the newbies. Normal role-playing games (RPG, sometimes called 'tabletop gaming') is done with one game master and usually three to seven players who sit around a table or at least one room. A LARP can be played by as little as five players (though this would likely not be terribly interesting for long) and up to hundreds of players, if the game master(s) have things organized enough. Each player actually walks around and pretends to be their character. Costuming is usually encouraged, and *most* actions and events occur in real time. LARPs? tend to be light on the mechanics, or at least light compared to tabletop rpgs.

Little plastic men/little plastic men of a different persuasion

Lynchburg Style

Lynchburg Style is how you make love to a woman in Lynchburg. When you're taking her from behind, just as she's about to come, you hit her in the back of the head. They love it.

Madicon

JMU’s gaming convention run by SFFG

Malfeas

Originally, a suite in Hanson Hall during '97-'98, home to BartGriffiths, PingSullivan, MikeAdkins, RichardRush, PaoloMunoz?, and Nick Hurston (and then PatKempter). Now, something that, if we told you what it was, we'd have to kill you, but rest assured it involves zombies, world domination, and a brisk trade in gently used souls. It's composed of the above and MichaelMorrison, JoshLeake, and BethSullivan? (Secretary).

Malfean Bullet

"Because you always save one for yourself."

Mark & Brian's House of Wax

1. The program book for Madicon 5 contained an ad for Mark & Brian's House of Wax. Mark and Brian being Mark "Monk" Spielman and Brian Glass, the Madicon 5 Chair. The ad promised a free candle to anyone who asked about the House of Wax at the Registration Desk, which Mark and Brian happily delivered (even though they were only small birthday candles).

• I still have mine! --Meg

  2. A card in the Pimp

  The Backhanding game that doubles the value of any one Ho by allowing the Pimp to make a wax replica of her.

Marriage Rock, The

Feast 1997. Event: Rock Toss. Rock about 5 lbs or so. (I'll have you know that thing weighs a hair under 16 pounds. That's like a Bart-sized bowling ball except without the smooth, round, non-jabbing shape. - PING!) So everyone had taken a throw, and the spectators had moved back a ways. Beth Smalley (now BethSullivan?) takes a huge windup, spins and throws the rock, at about a 45 degree angle. Everyone who is standing, sitting or kneeling dives out of the way. Except for one lone man, PingSullivan. Well come that evening, PING proposes to Beth, with the excuse of "Well you gave me a rock, so I figured I'd give you one as well." The marriage rock did attend their marriage in the summer of 2002.

• I wonder if it should attend the divorce as well? -PING!

Master Ninja Mind Control

There is no such thing as "Master Ninja Mind Control".

Meep meep

The sound baby seals make when you club them.

   -I thought that was "LARP! LARP!" (Jonah)

Montezuma

A bottom shelf brand of Tequila. Mike Morrison had the unfortunate pleasure of becoming very familiar with it at party at Dinah's house (prior to the infamous Madicon 7 party), to the point of sitting on the floor and hitting himself in the head with a yellow balloon for several minutes before the inevitable result of drinking Tequila occurred - (A sleeping Paolo curled up at Mike's feet trying to make sure that Mike is still alive and ready for work... There was no Amber played that night.)

Munchkin

1. a game

2.name of person who utilizes rules and possibly story to achieve characters for the sole purpose of bigger, better, new and improved ability to crush/cleave/explode whatever enemies/plots that the GM can come up with

New Orleans

Another DAK house...this is where the first themed DAK took place, where DAKs? took on a new life for an old tradition, and for a good long time was the home of monthly DAKs? (for a while shared bi-weekly with The End.) While DAKs? at New Orleans were never considered SFFG events, many SFFG members attended them. Residents of New Orleans included, but were not limited to, Nancy Walman, Morgan Condo, Paul Lord (I think), Cappy, and CC.

Newbies

A relative term. Generally used by SFFG alumni to describe the current membership of SFFG. Also used by those alumni to describe SFFG alumni younger than they are.

Nipple Kitty

Regular piece of artwork that showed up in the Madicon Art room for several years (in fact I believe it made an appearance 2002) done by an artist named Daniel Trout. A large jungle painting with several prints and lithograths of the ame picture, was a Furry Tigress/Human? female mix. Of course, she was topless and well, her nipple drew the eye. Thus, we have NIPPLE KITTY!

[No] Sex in the Anime Room

At Madicon 7 (I think), two staff members...let's call them Bill and Clara as a half assed attempt at protecting the less than innocent, were caught engaged in oral sex in the projection booth of the Anime room. From that day forward it was an explicitly stated rule that there was to be 'No sex in the Anime Room.' Also, seeing as how it was just oral sex, there never really was sex in the anime room. :)

• I think they were interrupted be for it could go much furthur. -Bart

Oldbies

A relative term. Generally used by the current membership of SFFG to describe SFFG alumni. Used by those alumni to describe SFFG alumni older than they are. RodneyMorris and DaveSeletyn? are often used as a sort of gold and palladium standard of oldbiedom. [That's because none of you whippersnappers remember plord, Morgan, Eva, etc. ;)]

Pat Stories

Pat stories are so much fun to tell. He's a smart guy, but he leaves his brain at home sometimes . . .To tell? to Have told. A "Pat Story" is when Pat tells a story and it takes forever because he keeps getting distracted, sidetracked, forgets his place, goes into background a year long, etc...

Oscar

Another gift to the Malfeans by JoshLeake. Because the Malfeans and a large number of Auxiliary Malfeans got their food at DC Pukes and brought it back to the suite for all of their meals, yet none of them really felt like taking out the trash all that often, trash buildup and a resulting Ant Problem became an issue. Josh to the rescue with a bigger trash can dubbed 'Oscar'. (What can I say, we named a lot of things.)

• No shit. -Bart

P-Can

A stuffed P-Chan (from Ranma 1/2) doll that hung from the ceiling in Malfeas. It wasn't a party until there was a beer can hanging from his tail. This made things tricky when all we had were bottles.

Pimp: the Backhanding

A card game created by JC Lira and debuted at Madicon 5. The game, featuring several Guild members and Chatterites as Pimps and Hos, was quite successful and was even printed. The Biblical Edition was planned but never fully completed.

Random Gaming Night

S+K Pooh fafa

During a gaming session in Taylor Hall on a snowy weekend, a group of people gazed out of a window onto the snow covered football field below. And Lo, from that field rose a glorious and mysterious sight. Like crop circles, it could not be seen in its true glory from the ground, for it appeared to be nothing more than random footprints, but from above, it spelled out the name of an awesome and mysterious power - S+K Pooh fafa. And all were amazed.

Sarcasim

Special brand of sarcasm specifically for those that can not spell. Sarcasim is also the name of a powerful Arab Noble in whose wake destruction was left and around whose feet women swooned. He is so named because Rob can't spell.

Stan

The Dark Lord to whom SFFGers? sacrifice, at least according to an official complaint made against us.

Swamp, The

You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Funded by MichaelZlogar's utter disregard for his scholastic standing and future credit eligibility, the Swamp saw beer blasts of stupefying magnitude (fiveish days a week), at least two orgies, and the origin of Fruit Baseball and Lot Surfing.

Turkey Smarm

The aftermath of Feast '97 (see also: Cabbage). PingSullivan ran that Feast and, as a result, most of the leftover food ended up in the Malfean refridgerators. The turkey, of which there was a great deal left over, became mandatory lunch food. This went on far longer than it really should have, and the turkey got... smarmy. A picture of this the hideous, Lovecraftian mess can be found here.

Vagrant boy

A freshman who came to Feast in 1996 and had the misfortune of sharing a tent with MikeAdkins, JC Lira, Kelly Connor, and Jessica Wegner. Dubbed 'Vagrant boy' by Jessica, he was never seen at another Guild function due to the trauma of being a shy freshman that was forced to listen to people have sex a few feet away from him.

Vagrent Boy

PatKempter, named such by the Malfeans because he just showed up in Malfeas, playing Final Fantasy VII and being tripped over by BartGriffiths and PingSullivan on the way to and from their room. Also, after Pat's unfortunate dismissal from JMU (the first time) the fact that he was on ScottSmith's couch for every weekend of what would have been Pat's junior year has also allowed Pat to keep this illustrious title. Note: Pat still has psychological scarring due to that couch since it was the COUCH OF NO SEX!

• I am officially changing the spelling of my title, so as to be less confused with the origional Vagrant Boy to Vagrent Boy to both represent my poor spelling capabilities and consistantcy of my reign within the title. I remain faithful to the title by my residence at Paolo/Chad's apartment. - PatKempter

Valhalla

The apartment of Frank Ivan, JC Lira, CC Bidwell, and Katie Thomas. This mead hall hosted the Seven Deadly Sins Dak, the Super Heroes Dak, and the Deities Dak. It featured a trampoline out back and locks of ever-escalating complexity on Katie Thomas's bedroom door. Moving out day was, of course, Ragnarok.

VAX

1. VAX stands for Virtual Address eXtension, and it is basically the PDP-11 architecture (16 bits) extended to 32 bits with support for paged virtual memory and twice as many registers. It was introduced in 1977 in the form of the VAX 11/780. With a clock rate that allowed it to execute one million instructions per second, and a price point that allowed many universities and other institutions to buy one, its popularity and accessibility helped the VAX become the "gold standard" to measure against. Based on what a VAX could do, The first "chip" version of the VAX architecture was the MicroVAX? 1. It was only 1/3 the performance of the 11/780 and only slightly faster than the 11/23. Its CPU Module ID is KD32?, that would make it a PDP-11 CPU which were generally KDx11? modules. It used the same bus as the PDP-11 (called the LSI-11 bus) but that was later rechristened the Q-Bus. With the introduction of the MicroVAX? II in 1985 at 90% the speed of an 11/780 the age of the Q-Bus based VAX officially began in earnest. (from [Chuck's House of VAX])

2. In SFFG context, VAX refers to the JMU VAX servers that hosted bulletin boards (including [Chatter], see above) and newsgroups (like the SFFG newsgroup) among many, many other things. For the curious, current students can still telnet to it at raven.jmu.edu.

• Wasn't raven.jmu.edu the first UNIX machine to replace the aging VAX system? And then the second UNIX machine was falcon.jmu.edu. There was vax1.jmu.edu and vax2.jmu.edu as the VAX machine names. - JohnMissal?
• Yes, I believe that's correct. - RichardRush
• I know I'm in the presence of geeks far greater than I, but I'm pretty sure Raven is still the VAX. VAX1? and VAX2? were the old machines, then they brought in the unix machine and called it Falcon. Then they called the machine that controlled the registration process (or maybe it was the email server?) Owl, and they just went nuts with the bird names and called the VAX Raven. This is fuzzy memories from my VAX Oper days. --Meg
  • If I understand everything right, they used to have one VAX machine (then, later, two of them, vax1.jmu.edu & vax2.jmu.edu). Then, at some point, got a new server, and called it raven.jmu.edu. The change would be transparent, by pointing vax1 and vax2 to raven and by loading the same account information. We do something like that here at TAMUCC: auk, conductor, numa, and penguin all use the same authentication server and all mount my home directory. KT, or Ben, would be the person to ask for certain as to what happened, though. -RichardRush
• Really, the VAX was two VAXen? clustered together (hence VAX1? and VAX2?, which some of you may remember from the login screen). Raven was a DEC Alpha, a different hardware platform also by Digital. Raven ran OpenVMS?, so while it technically wasn't a VAX, it provided a nearly identical user experience. Falcon was the student/general-use UNIX machine at JMU, and was a HP9000? running HPUX UNIX. --Omar

2a There was also DIRAC, the Physics Department VAX. It resided in Dr. Giovanetti's office. - Deb

3. For the "Hey, I know some trivia!" part of this definition, the special computer effects in 'The Last Starfighter' were done on a VAX system. I can't remember where I read that, but I've just begun a massive internet search for the info, so I'll post it here once I find it.

Wadtadah

Wadtadah, my tepitines, Wadtadah. Sepatown.

Wake Up Frankie

A memorable padded mace used by Josh Leake to tragically and permanently cripple Geoff Medieros at some Feast.