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- From: briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: "Have a Nice Day"
- Message-ID: <8384@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:33:10 GMT
- References: <9301211055.AA27444@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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- :Congratulations! You win the alt.usage.english prize for being the first
- :person I've spotted on the net to use 'prevarication' properly.
-
- :A second prize awaits the first person to use 'procrastination' *at all*, as
- :its use seems to have been wholly subsumed by prevarication :-(
-
- Well, I was going to use procrastination too, but I decided to put it off
- for a while.
-
- -Brian
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- Brian Diehm
- Tektronix, Inc. (503) 627-3437 briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
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