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Mind if Because

Posted by R. Berg on June 04, 2003

In Reply to: Mind if I ask... posted by ESC on June 03, 2003

: : : : I X-nayed the plan....
: : : : Where does the word...X-Nay come from?

: : : : I am guessing it has something to do with
: : : : Yea/Nay and hte senate.

: : : : Does anyone have more info?

: : : : Ian Cognito
: : : : Canada

: : : "Ix-nay" would be pig Lat*n for "nix."

: : Mind if I ask why you guys used the asterisk in the middle of a certain word?

: The board got requests for L*tin translations. The search engines picked it the word and we were snowed under.

Now look what you've done! They'll all be coming here asking for weather forecasts, just because TheFallen and ESC simultaneously and independently used "snowed under" in answering the same query.

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