Talk:jake

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Do not obfuscate progression. A jake is an adolescent male wild turkey. — This comment was unsigned.

It's mentioned here: [1] Equinox 19:49, 17 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

RFV discussion: October 2015–February 2016[edit]

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"A Discordian prank." I searched for "played a jake" in G.Groups and found only one match, probably a typo for "joke". Equinox 13:16, 17 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Read about the Great Spam Jake here: http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/SubG/spam-jake.html
Also, here are some books that use both "jake" and "Discordian": https://www.google.com/#q=discordian+jake&tbm=bks Khemehekis (talk) 05:09, 20 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
Seems to be always capitalised Jake. Equinox 18:03, 20 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hmmm. Then maybe we can move the definition in question from jake to Jake. Khemehekis (talk) 01:10, 21 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
I have extended the definition to explain what the prank is (sending a lot of letters or parcels to somebody). I agree we might need to move it to capital J, when we have the requisite citations. Equinox 01:22, 21 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
Here are several good citations: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/discordian$20jake Khemehekis (talk) 04:00, 21 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
Added 3 citations. Equinox 13:20, 4 February 2016 (UTC)Reply


MLE[edit]

‘jakes’ is used to refer to the police in S1E4 of ‘Top Boy: Summerhouse’, so I’ve added it as MLE.