On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Mike Mansheim wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Russell McMahon wrote:
>
>>>>> Are you greek or something ? ;-)
>
>>> Yes indeed - every person on this list, without exception, is :-)
>
>> Russell, he said Greek, not GEEK...  8-)
>
>I assumed it was a shot at sloppy semantics:
>logically, "[anything] or something" covers everybody
>(and what better group for knowing the power of "or" in a conditional!)
>although it is more fun to get the geek reference in...

Sloppy semantics is, when someone addresses an email that start with 'John
...' to a mailing list with >1800 members and g*d know how many Johns on
it, not the replay to that email, imho.

Peter

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