* David Yitzchak Cohen <lists+mutt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [04-11-2003 05:57]: > I'd be interested in seeing the first documented use of that term. > I wonder whether the guy who invented the term actually used it that > way, 'cause it certainly doesn't make much sense to put time into the > equation, IMHO. Time *or attempts (number of trials)*. The guy who invented it couldn't know upfront that most of the people were going to misuse the term. Come on, learn to live with that. -- René Clerc - (rene@xxxxxxxx) - PGP: 0x9ACE0AC7 MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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