or how about RE RE naming it "Precludes Dummies"

sorry ..could not resist

love to all

-----Original Message----- From: rat@telecoma.net [mailto:rat@telecoma.net] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 5:25 PM To: shreeswifty Cc: J. Scott Hildebrand; pd-list@iem.at Subject: RE: [PD] I've officially renamed Pd

lets lynch him

yep - its getting to much over the time

-----Original Message----- From: pd-list-admin@iem.at [mailto:pd-list-admin@iem.at]On Behalf Of J. Scott Hildebrand Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 5:23 PM To: pd-list@iem.at Subject: [PD] I've officially renamed Pd

The acronym is fine, but what it stands for has been changed to "Pain in the Derriere."

:P

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Hi all,

"Lynching" since about 1870 has commonly been understood in the U.S. to mean "extrajudicial killing of blacks for such offenses as associating with whites of the opposite sex". I'd suggest getting off this topic which brings back bad memories for some.

cheers Miller

sorry ..could not resist

...[etc]

On Friday 08 August 2003 18:51, Miller Puckette wrote:

Hi all,

"Lynching" since about 1870 has commonly been understood in the U.S. to mean "extrajudicial killing of blacks for such offenses as associating with whites of the opposite sex". I'd suggest getting off this topic which brings back bad memories for some.

cheers Miller

Actually I didn't know that - I for one just think of "lynching" as synomynous with "beating". Then again, I could just be an ignorant, racist, American ;-)

Larry

On Friday 08 August 2003 22:46, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Larry Troxler wrote:

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Actually I didn't know that - I for one just think of "lynching" as synomynous with "beating". Then again, I could just be an ignorant, racist, American ;-)

my dictionary says "to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal sanction"

which is also always how I've seen the word used

and that's a bit more than just beating up.

Right you are, although since it the word is rarely used in its literal sense, it doesn't actually matter much whether it means to be "beat up" or to be "killed".

The only important question I think, is whether this term is offensive to blacks in the US or elsewhere. I hope we can get some opinions to this question (especially from US brothers!) posted on this list. (OT I know, yes, yes, but still...)

Larry

On Saturday 09 August 2003 05:53, martin pi wrote:

http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/rlynch/roots/lynch_name.html

The family settled initially in Co. Meath, and a branch then established itself in Galway, where they rapidly became one of the strongest of the Tribes of Galway; one of their number, James Lynch, mayor in 1493, is reputed to have hanged his own son for murder when no one else could be found to carry out the sentence.

i was there - they even have a memorial for him. bad bad word. martin

bad bad person you mean.

Thanks for the link - I never knew the origins of the word!

Larry

i've got the noose:

/ | | | = = O

;)

shreeswifty wrote:

lets lynch him -----Original Message----- From: pd-list-admin@iem.at [mailto:pd-list-admin@iem.at]On Behalf Of J. Scott Hildebrand Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 5:23 PM To: pd-list@iem.at Subject: [PD] I've officially renamed Pd

The acronym is fine, but what it stands for has been changed to "Pain in the Derriere."

:P

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c'mon! i've only gotten started ranting and raving!

btw who is voting for ARNOLD? i am!

"The best activitities for your health are pumping and humping." - 1975

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer." - 1975

"Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day..." - 1979

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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, shreeswifty wrote:

lets lynch him -----Original Message----- From: pd-list-admin@iem.at [mailto:pd-list-admin@iem.at]On Behalf Of J. Scott Hildebrand Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 5:23 PM To: pd-list@iem.at Subject: [PD] I've officially renamed Pd

The acronym is fine, but what it stands for has been changed to "Pain in the Derriere."

:P

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"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981

Well the definition of acronym is a matter of great contention and by a lot of dictionary definitions PD is an acronym.

The confusion, I believe, comes from a simplistic understanding of what a word actually is. 'PD', however, does come under most dictionary definitions of a word.

The argument of whether an initialism is an acronym is a very large - debated - can of worms.

Ed

-----Original Message----- From: pd-list-admin@iem.at [mailto:pd-list-admin@iem.at] On Behalf Of Larry Troxler Sent: 09 August 2003 02:37 To: J. Scott Hildebrand; pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] I've officially renamed Pd

On Friday 08 August 2003 17:23, J. Scott Hildebrand wrote:

The acronym is fine, but what it stands for has been changed to "Pain in

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the Derriere."

:P

Sorry. RTFD: PD is not an acronym, unless everyone is pronouncing it as "pidhh", "puddy", or some other equally pimply-faced prounounciation. (Then again, who knows, hardcore geeks can acronymize almost any combination of consonants).

If you just say "Peedee", then it's not an acronym.

Larry

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