From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:18:53 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11/70 SPL In-Reply-To: References: <56F867BE.2080807@update.uu.se> Message-ID: <20160328151853.GB7193@mercury.ccil.org> Dave Horsfall scripsit: > Ian Johnson, are you here, when I "accidentally" crashed your machine, and > after I fessed up to it, you referred to me as a vulgar term for the > female genitalia, then promptly hung up? If he was a Brit or Ozite, he was merely calling you a jerk or idiot; the word has a different connotation there, and is most often applied to men rather than women. (This is probably calqued from French _con_, which has shifted meaning completely.) > Christ, but this is starting to sound like some religion or other. > Yes, Warren, I need to know that should I write that history, that we > won't both get sued; how long is the Statute of Limitations anyway? Tell the truth and shame the Devil, and fear no libel. Who's left to sue you anyway? -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so, is a tax on income. --Lord Macnaghten (1901)