[BC] Svartisfoss...

[Burt I. Weiner]

Alan,

Your translation is close to what I've been told.  I was told that it's 
Swedish or Norweigian and means, "There's no light in the men's room".  The 
FCC is certainly akin to a Black Hole these days.

Burt

At 01:00 AM 10/6/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>From: Alan Alsobrook <radiotech at bellsouth.net>
>Subject: Re: [BC] What's a "Svartifoss"?  was Sign of the times?
>To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>  From what i'm guessing, please remember I'm not an IT guy, when you set
>up servers like that on a (I think unix) network you have to give the
>servers a name. From what I've seen it seems the people doing the naming
>search far and wide to find weird, strange, and unique names to give
>their servers.. This is what I'm thinking is going on.  But then again
>considering all the FCC data is in there, their cold be some deep
>meaning to the name which means "Black Waterfall" I think we need to get
>Art Bell to investigate! :)  Now had the name translated to "Black Hole"
>it wouldn't be hard to figure out the meaning.
>
>khcs at juno.com wrote:
>
> > That's veeery interesting!  But, I still wonder what it has to do wit 
> hthe FCC database.  Just curious, I guess...
> > Glen Kippel
> > KHCS
> > Palm Desert, CA
>
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>Alan Alsobrook CSRE AMD CBNT
>St. Augustine Fl. 32086 904-829-8885
>aalso at Bellsouth.net

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