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On 11/15/00 10:50 PM, Bill Swallow (bill_swallow -at- yahoo -dot- com) wrote:
>I consulted for a company that refrained from using
>the terms "male" and "female" when describing
>installation and configuration procedures for hardware
>and appliances ("insert the male end of the connector
>into the female end" type of stuff). Evidently they
>got some complaints over the years for 'sexual
>undertones'.
I wrote, then deleted, an extremely funny (to me) response to Bill's
message, and will instead simply say that anyone tempted to reply to this
should search the archives for "master/slave" or "female connector". If
there's anything not mentioned in the threads that show up, it's either
brilliantly original, or not worth saying... ;-)
----->Mike
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