From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   on 9/23/2021, CDB supposed :   
   > On 9/23/2021 12:14 AM, Snidely wrote:   
   >> Michael Trew  scribbled something on Wednesday the 9/22/2021:   
   >   
   >>> What does "UMSCRIBE" mean?  I've seen this enough times, but have yet to   
   >>> figure it out.   
   >   
   >> It's an AFCA meme, going back into the dark ages.  Google Groups seems to   
   >> limit "the past" to about the year 2000, so good luck finding the first   
   >> use.   
   >   
   >> In this case, Sir Clive Sinclair has unsubscribed to The Earthly Present.   
   >> He has fallen off the roof, in reference to an old joke   
   >> not unique to AFCA.   
   >   
   > I have always thought it was from German, something like "umschreiben"   
   > (which might sometimes be translated as "sum up", according to   
   > Wordreference).   
   >   
   > Draw a circle round him thrice,   
   > For he has et his earthly bread   
   > And now drinks beer in paradise.   
      
   That's a good one, but apparently the meme started with a spelling   
   error.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   Killing a mouse was hardly a Nobel Prize-worthy exercise, and Lawrence   
   went apopleptic when he learned a lousy rodent had peed away all his   
   precious heavy water.   
   _The Disappearing Spoon_, Sam Kean   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)