A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)

Post by whatshisface » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 7:14 PM UTC

egypturnash wrote: post #39

pimlottc wrote: post #27

Is there a particular reason to believe that the unnamed employee was male? The article refers to them as "he" multiple times and compares them to a monk (traditionally male): > Like a monk, he labored over his document every day, adding carefully crafted letters and elaborate drawings to what became, over nine years, a remarkably full chronicle of the decade.

“He” comes from the description in the original posting on the rare books site selling these: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205191022/https://bostonrar... - possibly they knew exactly who it was from? That said, I got a femme vibe off the handwriting too. And the inclusion of cartouches around the lunar phase drawings plus a lovingly illustrated entry for Samhain suggests the artist is a neopagan of some kind, whi…

Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 7:18 PM UTC

cobbaut wrote: post #14

January 13 1984 he switched to using Debian :)

Post by Aloha » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 8:44 PM UTC

Post by jki275 » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 9:02 PM UTC

JKCalhoun wrote: post #9

They would be better gruntled two years later since K.U. would win the NCAAA Tournament in 1987.

Post by worstspotgain » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 11:44 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #17

JKCalhoun wrote: post #9

They would be better gruntled two years later since K.U. would win the NCAAA Tournament in 1987.

There should be a word for these back-formations that specifically come from cutting this prefix looking thing off the front of a word to invert their meaning. Disgruntled -> gruntled Unhinged -> hinged