SC - OT - stuffed camel

Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir nannar at isholf.is
Thu Sep 9 16:44:29 PDT 1999


Bonne of Traquair wrote:
> 
> Bonne
> (whose life is filled with whatchamacallits, thingies and whizbangers
> because the real nouns so often fail to materialize in her brain.)

Another example would be the infamous three-pronged widget, which
started out life as an interesting optical illusion drawing and is now
commonly used as a generic term similar to "thingies" in the fields of
both engineering and economics.

Then, of course, there are bugs, with which the computer world was
dealing with yet another, today.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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