Irregular spelling of "pl*co"

[gcvt]

I always typed out pleco, instead of pl*co and my pleco died! Of course he was about 4-5 years old at the time.

 

[JamisonBWolsh]

and the life span for pl*cos are 10 years and longer.... My advice: dont spell pl*co!!!

 

[gcvt]

If you say pleco, but you don't have a pleco...will someone else's pleco die?

 

[Twilight]

I typed out pleco once on this site and it changed to pl*co before my very own eyes. Even my comp knows this urban legend. Or was it the ghost of a moderator?

 

[tetraodon]

gcvt-good question. hmmm.... let me think who has a pleco...

Twilight- I like the idea of starting our own rumor. That'd be fun !

 

[wetmanNY]

When I was in college,purely to gall the ugly United Fruit Company, (The expression "Banana Republic" used to have a negative connotation, children...) we decided to spread a rumor that if you dried the strings inside banana peels and smoked them, you'd get high. That would have been early December, 1965. We all talked it up over the Christmas holidays. It took about three months for the rumor to get back to me...

These things can be done...

 

[gcvt]

Originally posted by wetmanNY
When I was in college,purely to gall the ugly United Fruit Company, (The expression "Banana Republic" used to have a negative connotation, children...) we decided to spread a rumor that if you dried the strings inside banana peels and smoked them, you'd get high. That would have been early December, 1965. We all talked it up over the Christmas holidays. It took about three months for the rumor to get back to me...

These things can be done...

Ah, so that's where that rumor came from!

I never tried it. No, I swear!

 

[Sensei_the_dojo]

Originally posted by AikidoGuy
ahhhh but how do you pronounce the word pleco?

Pronouncing "pleco" is not the problem. How they heck does one pronounce "pl*co"? Is it plstarco or plasterisko?

 

[Serrateeth_2002]

PLECO! Any plecos dead yet?
It would be useful if it was true like my pl*co grew too big,i spelled pleco and it is dead ready to be flushed.

 

[Must4ng s4lly]

I though people spelled it like that so when one did a search, it would not pick up the word just in a list,only threads about plecs