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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix style
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 10:39:50 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1408031038040.56292@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1408030029510.64450@localhost>

On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Steve Nickolas wrote:

> I wonder if it's similar to how nobody can spell "free rein" correctly.

My favourite is "Ladies and gentlemen, we will be landing momentarily."  
Err, aren't they going to let us "deplane" first?

-- Dave



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-03  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-03  0:15 Doug McIlroy
2014-08-03  0:30 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-03  0:39   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2014-08-03  0:56     ` John Cowan
2014-08-03  0:35 ` John Cowan
2014-08-03  0:38   ` Cory Smelosky
2014-08-04 19:02   ` scj

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