From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:13:52 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <3b3e4c7a34529e5fa8fbc04e7434fad0@felloff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] once more: drawterm osx-x11 on x86-64 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 46b73478-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > what does "out of whack" mean? Off the rails, perhaps. I presume that it's one of those English expressions (like "doubtedly" or "all but...") that originally meant (rightly) the exact opposite of what it (wrongly) does now: you whack something into place, so it's out of whack if it's not right any more. Lucio.