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According to the most serene of intelligences, the Wikipedia:

"Leet is a slang term used primarily on the Internet, particularly in online games. It is derived from the word "Elite" and generally has the same meaning when referring to the skills of another person. The term is often written with numbers replacing letters, such as 1337, l33t, l33+, as well as many other variations."

I am anger. What the truckin' rucker is going on these days? Ok, so perhaps Generation Y (or whatever the heck they are these days) are a tad too cool for this wrinkly bumpkin. But please! Enuf is enough! At first, I thought a likely culprit for this epidemic was mobile phones. I then considered that liability may rest on email's shoulders. But no. I've sorted it. It's Nite Owl. Or maybe Pick 'n' Pay. Definitely one of those. And we all know what happened to them... The great wizened Owl is all but off its perch. And old Pickster... well, contrary to popular belief about snot on the carpet, it is now a financial tumbleweed due to the sheer unadulterated tackiness of its title.

So perhaps the current hip-hoppy, props-monkey coolios were too young to remember the scar Pick 'n' Pay left. But not this rabbit. Oh no. The slobbish slang of the moment will lose its l33tness all too soon, and in a few short years the leaders of this linguistic rat-pack will look back and realise with astonishment that they were, in truth, a complete mob of 7001s.