Lovable Sidekick to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agoCalling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".message-square55fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down12
arrow-up142arrow-down1message-squareCalling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".Lovable Sidekick to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square55fedilink
minus-square@GiveOver@feddit.uklinkfedilink5•6 months agoOne time I heard a colleague called the settings/gear icon in Windows a flower. I’ve also heard somebody refer to the PuTTY icon as “the two penguins”
minus-square@Link@rentadrunk.orglinkfedilink7•6 months agoAre we referring to this icon? Found here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY If so I see no resemblance with a penguin at all.
minus-square@GiveOver@feddit.uklinkfedilink7•6 months agoYep that’s the one. It was on the taskbar so significantly smaller than it looks here. I think he thought the lightning bolt was the beaks. Sometimes late at night I squint my eyes to look at the icon and, for a fleeting moment, I can see two penguins.
minus-square@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink-2•6 months agoSo either your friend has terrible eye sight, was high, or is an idiot.
One time I heard a colleague called the settings/gear icon in Windows a flower. I’ve also heard somebody refer to the PuTTY icon as “the two penguins”
Are we referring to this icon? Found here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY
If so I see no resemblance with a penguin at all.
Yep that’s the one. It was on the taskbar so significantly smaller than it looks here. I think he thought the lightning bolt was the beaks.
Sometimes late at night I squint my eyes to look at the icon and, for a fleeting moment, I can see two penguins.
So either your friend has terrible eye sight, was high, or is an idiot.