OH MY GOD

[davidn]

It's always nagged at me that I've never completed either of the Best of ZZT games - I redownloaded Part 1 yesterday thinking that it couldn't possibly be as difficult as it had seemed when I had first seen it. From first appearances, it's actually slightly worse than I remember.

Well, that's something to keep me distracted from being on a plane tomorrow...

Comments

[davidn]

Frankly, I was terrified of what might come up if I Googled either of those terms. I see it mentioned in images like this, but very rarely among the results... oddly enough, I remember almost exactly where I got it from - it was one of the daytime quiz programmes I grew up with, 4-Square or Turnabout or something, where one of the questions was "Is this [symbol shown] a male ring or a female ring?" And that the next question was "Is this an ampersand or a treble clef?".

And... am I to take it that you had a different justification in mind!

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I had no justification in mind at all! I just had the very experience you were writing about! :)

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

If you'd like a more worksafe workaround, Googling the astrological symbols for Mars and Venus will provide you with the same results. I believe they were, in turn, used as the alchemical symbols for iron and copper respectively, for other symbological reasons; either way, it might be less traumatising than "male/female rings". :P

D.F.