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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: mcdowell@cs.nps.navy.mil (Perry McDowell)
Subject: Re: Holidays
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 05:56:52 GMT

In article <CHDG0w.6GJ@fc.hp.com> rrd@fc.hp.com (Ray Depew) writes: >[Note to new readers: often, writers on Alt.Folklore.Urban will disguise
>their "sheesh" comment by substituting each letter with one offset 13 places

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >from it in the alphabet. The result is left as an exercise for the
>interested reader.]

Okay, I think this might explain one of the in-jokes this newbie has been missing, but is that offset 13 places forward, or 13 backwards. I want to be sure I get it right.