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Re: How quickly can you tell what this is?

From	Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: How quickly can you tell what this is?
Date	2017-12-31 12:47 +1100
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On 31/12/2017 3:40 AM, krw@notreal.com wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:45:09 -0500, Michael A Terrell
> <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> Perry wrote:
>>> On 30-Dec-17 11:17 AM, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 6:13:53 AM UTC+11, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:24:38 -0800, Winfield Hill wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>    That's a fine contribution!
>>>>>
>>>>> There you go, Pimpom. That endorsement is equivalent to a blessing from
>>>>> the Pope around here!
>>>>
>>>> Not exactly. Nobody thinks that Win is infallible, but his endorsement
>>>> is worth having, even if you aren't supersititious.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh come on Bill FFS.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Sloman's endorsement is the kiss of death.
> 
> "Sloman's endorsement" is an oxymoron.

Krw doesn't quite understand what the word means. He seem to think that 
an "endorsement" is a kind of benefit, whereas it literally means sign 
on the back (dorsum) of.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/endorse

It could be an an oxymoron if I couldn't write, but this is a text-only 
forum, not that krw knows what "illiterate" means either.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? "Tom Del Rosso" <fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> - 2017-12-29 09:04 -0500
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Pimpom <Pimpom@invalid.com> - 2017-12-29 21:54 +0530
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-12-29 08:43 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Pimpom <Pimpom@invalid.com> - 2017-12-29 22:55 +0530
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-12-29 10:24 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 19:13 +0000
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? boB <boB@K7IQ.com> - 2017-12-29 14:12 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-29 19:17 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Perry <Perry@null.com> - 2017-12-30 11:35 +0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Michael A Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 23:45 -0500
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-29 23:57 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-12-30 09:26 +0000
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 03:35 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-30 19:51 -0600
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 19:24 -0800
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Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 22:59 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 09:41 -0500
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 18:49 -0800
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Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 08:52 -0600
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 16:54 -0500
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 18:55 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 18:51 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2018-01-01 06:52 -0600
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Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2018-01-01 08:54 -0600
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2018-01-01 17:45 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Michael A Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2018-01-01 02:13 -0500
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 23:58 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 11:40 -0500
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Michael A Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 12:31 -0500
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? M Philbrook <jamie_ka1lpa@charter.net> - 2017-12-30 13:55 -0500
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? tabbypurr@gmail.com - 2017-12-30 14:57 -0800
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2017-12-31 12:36 +1100
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2017-12-31 12:47 +1100
Re: How quickly can you tell what this is? Pimpom <Pimpom@invalid.com> - 2017-12-31 00:15 +0530

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