From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 12:02:17 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Unix style
In-Reply-To: <20140803003558.GK15007@mercury.ccil.org>
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To Doug's original point, I think "raining" features might be the best
metaphor...


> Doug McIlroy scripsit:
>
>> (COuld "reigning in" somehow have been implanted by this
>> headline that I saw in The Economist a few days ago:
>> "The reign in Maine is easy to explain"?)
>
> It's a pretty common malapropism nowadays; almost 6M Google hits.
>
> --
> John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
> It's the old, old story.  Droid meets droid.  Droid becomes chameleon.
> Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
> again.  It's a classic tale.  --Kryten, Red Dwarf
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