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- From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
- Subject: SM (was Cheese popcorn)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:42:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.204221.24297@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec22.205952.9536@sunova.ssc.gov> <1992Dec22.213606.22305@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec25.073227.24964@u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec25.073227.24964@u.washington.edu>
- wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec22.213606.22305@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
- >>ObfoodUL: The pound cake is so called because it takes
- >>a pound of butter. Avoird(mumble) or imperial pound?
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- > Actually, a pound of _every_ ingredient. At least, an Old Family
- >Recipe (tm, r, c, sm[*]) --- which produces delicious pound cake let
- >me tell you, as long as you're not on a diet --- does. Well, not a
- >pound of salt, but ...
- >
- >[*] What does this stand for (besides sadomasochism)? Seems to me
- > I once heard it explaines as "sales mark" or something equally
- > contrived.
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- Service Mark.
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