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Mind if Because

Posted by R. Berg on June 04, 2003

In Reply to: Mind if Because posted by ESC on June 04, 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.

: Funny.

And in June, too.

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