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OT:Re: Semi OT: Car confusion - RU86'd
I've always gone w/ the definition:
P.C. = posteriorly centered
As for the "sit back and laugh" approach, I would be soooooo tempted would
it were that those who I laugh @ weren't governing me.
Don't laugh......vote..........vote these peons to the status they
deserve!
Then laugh. Then tell them to get you a beverage in a sealed container (a
sealed container might be best ;^} )
Tim
<Intention> "It's classic percolate-up economics, recognizing that money
is like manure: It works best if you spread it around."
<Knghtbrd> Intention: Carter's correlation: People with lots of either
usually smell funny
<Intention> Knghtbrd: You SO win.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, David Utley wrote:
> 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 :)
> >
> >
> 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
>
> >
> > Julie Macfarlane
> > Menlo Park Research & Development
> > Internet Application Developer
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> > Amsterdam NY
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >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
> >
> > >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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