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From: <jim@jpes.com>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 5:43 PM
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Subject: RE: [PIC] A catalogue of cock-ups

>
> All,
>
> Just for my own education, where did the term "cock-up" come from?
> And does it mean "a quick and dirty assembly technique" or possibly
> a "screw up of some sort"?  I'm just curious.  I've never heard that
> term before.

I guess you don't live in the UK then :-) - your second guess was right, it=
=20
basically means a screw up.
First result on Google makes for reasonable reading on the origin etc:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cock-up.html=20


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