Re: OT: Etymology of a clue

2002-04-12 Thread ben
On Friday 12 April 2002 12:28 am, Eric G. Miller wrote: [snip] > BTW: impact-full? Maybe, you were searching for understatement? retort? > insult? actually, it was an apparently vain attempt to bust even with "modicum of clue." so much for that, eh? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: OT: Etymology of a clue

2002-04-12 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:28:31AM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:41:10PM -0700, ben wrote: > > On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:48 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [big snip} > > > > karsten, if there were a competition to construct the most impact-full > > phrase, you would