Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java left shift and right shift operators. Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:49:29 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <295e16b3-2ed8-4529-bfb0-1cc26ed93ad6@d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <1b558330-ae94-4e4e-9922-a9aeb63eaf37@d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net ZO5zUSBgOH2QbLEHzH9R+vvMJrZQo81VoreUMciplI8lDcvwU5k9wFBnSpqNMRT+AssiyNli3bL05V2QvnOjZQ== NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="G2E/GsPKMOtgnYNLYshHVPCvKDqZHZkrBoyI9Rky05fBH8CNml0exs9Yp8BJPLhXe3Jd+e8Oi28OjGx2BUzOfxSHBhBC1xpeuzzBqTKWpPssbeMUhQBCipKjsdDD+tQB"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:3nICOw1sg0xkEmqhwIbs2nFIQhA= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3308 Patricia Shanahan wrote: > Lew wrote: > As far as I can tell, Lew-Boy, ... > > [I had not previously seen appending "-Boy" to the name as a convention > for addressing people in USENET articles, but I'll go along with > whatever mode of address the person I'm responding to seems to prefer.] It's an informal mode of address popular in the U.S. It rhymes with "Danny Boy", title the famous song set to an English folk tune. It's a rubric often used between friends, as in, "Hey, Jimmy-Boy! How the hell have you been, you old so-and-so?" I suppose you're complaining that I was being too informal. Sorry. You, of course, Dr. Shanahan, do not have to ask for the privilege of being informal with me. I would be honored to have you call me "Lew-Boy". -- Lew I am known as "Mr. Boy." I fetch and carry, wrap wires, do useful things around.