You are right Bruise.
I went and pulled up the floor out in my shed. My Uber 1337 computer geek that used to live under a rock, but needed more space for his porn collection, looked up and was blinded by the non-CRT light.
After his screaming in pain, and then using the torture knives to extract information, I found out that yes 1337 means, in current geek cant, Elite. Which they use to mean someone that does an extra-good job. Of course like most true Uber geeks he long ago lost the ability to speak in English. Now he just forwards Earls. (thats URL's or internet address's to us none-geeks)
Then I asked him (since he is UK educated) if he'd heard of Henry Earl, he said that of course he had. They apparently had a game deciding what they would do each evening after class depending on Mr Earl was currently in custody or not.
Sorry about the thread wandering, I thought my original post title was 1337, I found it, then found something else I thought was interesting. I'll try to stay more on topic. I managed to work Torture knives in the thread so I could make sure there was something Kuhkri related in here.
Poor guy, I wonder if you all use the torture knives horizontal to the finger nails, or perpendicular?
