Re: Fun pairs

Subject: Re: Fun pairs
From: Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:38:48 -0700

At 01:01 PM 9/23/97 -0400, Peter Brown wrote:
>My favourite non-use of the apostrophe is the men's bathroom with a sign
>on the door that says: "MENS".
>
>I guess that's why the can is where men go to *think*.
>
This is an almost verbatim sentence from a system management manual I looked
at some 15 years ago: "When the system freezes or exhibits an anomaly of any
kind, the operator takes a dump, which frequently helps in analyzing the
situation."

--Wayne
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