Hi Folks, On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:39:03 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Kali McLaughlin wrote: >> We have been using Star Office running under Linux to translate M$ >> documents with some success. All was well until the latest versions of >> the spreadsheets. Are these Claytons windows programs available in >> Linux? Steve wrote: > "Claytons?" What's that? > Doing a search on http://www.google.com/linux for "Excel > spreadsheet Clayton" wasn't any help... 2 irrelevant hits. Perhaps Kali should have explained. "Claytons" relates to an advertising campaign in Australia for a product that claimed to have the flavour, but not the alcohol, of something that you mix with soft drinks - "The drink I have when I'm not having a drink" The campaign as a total disaster - nobody could buy the stuff for laughing at it. But it has entered everyday speech in Australia. So anything that has pretensions to some quality, but is a fake, is called a "Claytons" item. So, if you like, Windows (3x and higher) is a "Claytons" Mac OS, so to speak. Regards, Ron Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html http://tadpole.aus.as -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Versatile Internet Client
