English citations of $DEITY

Noun edit

  • 2000, tim The Enchanter ?, Re: Infested by human scum., alt.gothic, Usenet
    For backorders consult a local priest or general religious leader. the translations contain some minor differences, but the overal scope should be the same. " life is shit. Die and glorious things await you * "
    *fine print: only when you are good in the eyes of $DEITY
  • 2000, Justin Warren, Re: newbie learns an arcane command, alt.sysadmin.recovery, Usenet
    No real init that actually works the way it's supposed to. No snoop. No truss/strace. The whole stupid application install method with it's /opt /etc/opt/, /var/opt, /tmp/var/etc/opt $DEITY dammit!
  • 2000, 2:1, Re: Malloy digest, comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy, Usenet
    For $DEITY's sake, stop `digesting' each other and advocate something useful!
  • 2003, Benjamin Geiger, Re: Diamond Horseshoe to close, rec.arts.disney.parks, Usenet
    Maybe the good people over at the AC can make some room for the performers... $DEITY knows they're talented enough.
  • 2003, Exatron, Re: Thats Just TOO FRIGGEN COOL!!!!, alt.toys.transformers, Usenet
    You're missing the point if you think Transformers need to adhere to what humans are capable of building. They're an ancient race of alien robots for $DEITY's sake.
  • 2006, Marcus Alexander Hart, Caster's Blog: A Geek Love Story, Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 28
    I'm telling you, you need to just take Shadoe out on your own. Just take her out for $DEITY{possessive} sake!
  • 2006, James Farrar, For $DEITY's sake..., alt.sports.football.pro.sf-49ers, Usenet
  • 2011, John Welch, iOS 5 in the Enterprise, Peachpit Press (→ISBN), page 76
    I'm not the only one, the silly thing just doesn't want to build. Then again, it hasn't been updated in a dog's age. As near as I can tell, no one's done anything with it since 2001. $DEITY knows what OpenSCEP will build on now.
  • 2014, Tom Coffeen, IPv6 Address Planning: Designing an Address Plan for the Future, O'Reilly Media, Inc. (→ISBN)
    In this chapter, we'll take advantage of the topics we learned in Chapters 4 through 6 to walk through building from scratch a couple of sample IPv6 address plans for a (thank $DEITY) fictional company.
  • 2015 March 30, Daniel James, “Re: [anti-topic] rant, idiots should probably avoid”, in comp.mobile.android[1] (Usenet):
    Thank $DEITIES for Open Source!
  • 2020 April 6, Steven Bellovin, “Trusting Zoom?”, in CircleID[2]:
    And of course, that sort of thing can't happen to us, because we're fine, upstanding folk who have the blessing of the computer deity — $DEITY, in the old Unix-style joke — of our choice.