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OT:Re: Semi OT: Car confusion - RU86'd
Quoting Julie Macfarlane <juliemac57@hotmail.com>:
> How about the complaint about "master" and "slave" in connection to
> networking and computers? The terms have been in use for over 20 years.
> This is getting really stupid :)
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Or in automotive terminology? Perhaps they will change it to "Slightly more
dominant" cylinder and "Slightly less domninat" cylinder? :-P
The world, it is getting more and more stupid... I say we grin, point, and
laugh....
My .02
David
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> >From: Dan <dan@angband.org>
> >To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >Subject: Re: Semi OT: Car confusion - RU86'd
> >Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:39:38 -0500
> >
> >On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:36:03PM -0600, Don Walter wrote:
> > > Does anyone know where the term 86-it came from. It comes from the part
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> >number of the pill (RU86) to kill unborn babies.
> > >
> > > RU86 = Are you dead? killed? expired? etc...
> >
> >For one thing, the pill is called RU-486. The RU has NOTHING to do
> >with "Are You", it is a contraction of the French pharmaceutical
> >manufacturer Roussel-Uclaf. But the more important question is, RU-469?
> >
> >For another, as multiple people have pointed out, "86'ed" has NOTHING to
> >do with the RU-486 pill, and predates it by decades.
> >
> >It's intolerant bleeding heart PC crap like this that gets people fired
> >for using terms like "niggardly", which has nothing to do with certain
> >phonetically similar epithets.
> >
> >http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-nig1.htm
> >
> >Dan
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