Foot in Mouth Disease

[Angrboda]

Meh. I have nothing relevant to say, so I'll wander off topic while pretending to be on topic.

There was in the old days, a thing called Fidonet. It was a sort of internet forum before there really was an internet. The way it worked was, you post on your local system, and once posted, all the systems would swap the stuff just posted so they all got updated. (The information was broken up into chunks called 'packets', and this was called a packet network. Fidonet was a worldwide packet network.)

Anyway, long intro, but there was a common saying that originated about this time to describe such faux pas as the thread title mentions (I think it was at this time, anyway).


And that saying was: "Open mouth, insert foot, echo globally."



Kinda sounds like something ya might say today.

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ETA: Oh, and, "They don't call it a November surprise because it shows up in September." The Fat Lady hasn't even entered the building.