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Re: [SLE] My patience has run out
- From: Kevin McLauchlan <kmclauchlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:58:51 -0500
- Message-id: <200210311158.51264.kmclauchlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 31 October 2002 11:01, Anders Johansson
wrote:
> On Thursday 31 October 2002 16.54, Kevin McLauchlan
wrote:
> > But for those of us who are members of the
> > CopyEditors mailing list, "cow-orkers" has been a
> > standing joke for about the last seven years.
>
> It's a Dilbert gag, isn't it?
I think Dilbert was not yet a gleam in Scott Adams' eye
when I first read "cow-orkers" for co-workers.
The CopyEditors' list has thousands of members,
who live/work in hundreds of industries, so it's not
surprising that that kind of lore would get picked up
in Dilbert, as well.
Originally, it was just a jab at how badly the
spell-checkers and hyphenation routines used to
garble the language. Things have improved. :-)
/kevin
wrote:
> On Thursday 31 October 2002 16.54, Kevin McLauchlan
wrote:
> > But for those of us who are members of the
> > CopyEditors mailing list, "cow-orkers" has been a
> > standing joke for about the last seven years.
>
> It's a Dilbert gag, isn't it?
I think Dilbert was not yet a gleam in Scott Adams' eye
when I first read "cow-orkers" for co-workers.
The CopyEditors' list has thousands of members,
who live/work in hundreds of industries, so it's not
surprising that that kind of lore would get picked up
in Dilbert, as well.
Originally, it was just a jab at how badly the
spell-checkers and hyphenation routines used to
garble the language. Things have improved. :-)
/kevin
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