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Subject:Re: Marvel at my stupidity From:Cirrus Matusek <CMatusek -at- LTDCOMMODITIES -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 25 Aug 1999 07:57:20 -0500
Let's not forget: "For God sakes."
As opposed to, "For God's sake, let us move on." :o)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deborah McDaniel [SMTP:DeborahM -at- captura -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 2:48 PM
> To: Cirrus Matusek; TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: RE: Marvel at my stupidity
>
> Hee-hee
> I had a boss who would speak of "taking a different tact" when speaking of
> strategies.
>
> Deborah McDaniel
> Technical Writer
> Captura Software, Inc.
> deborahm -at- captura -dot- com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cirrus Matusek [mailto:CMatusek -at- LTDCOMMODITIES -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:24 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Marvel at my stupidity
>
>
> I know someone who says, in reference to nit-picking, "Quit knitting
> picks."
>
> I laugh just thinking about it!
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ahowell -at- POOLMAIL -dot- DOLPHINSOFTWARE -dot- COM
> > [SMTP:ahowell -at- POOLMAIL -dot- DOLPHINSOFTWARE -dot- COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 2:09 PM
> > To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> > Subject: Re: Marvel at my stupidity
> >
> > I had a friend who when he wanted to stop something before it got out of
> > hand
> > would always try to "nip it in the butt."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I plan to add it to my list of misheard/misinterpreted words and phrases
> > that
> > make a kind of sense anyway. "For all intensive
> > purposes" is another one I've seen recently. I see "mute point" every
> once
> > in a
> > while. "Low and behold" mostly just bugs me.
> >
> > The worst part about these, from the perspective of a writer/editor, is
> > that
> > most of them pass the spell checker--and many of them
> > make it past pretty decent editing, because they're so *almost* right.
> >
> > Julie Comstock-Fisher Documentation Manager
> > julief -at- pdainc -dot- com PDA, Inc.
> > .....................................................
> > I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
> > -Gilda Radner
> >
> >
> >
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