At 07:14 AM 11/2/02, Kevin Tarr wrote:
Question: What da 'ell else interstate is there to drive on?
If there were interstate dirt roads and interstate monorails and interstate
skateboard ramps, then I could see the need for the word highway to
diferentiate one interstate system from another.
But dere ain't.
Oh the stentorian sayings and the sanctimony of the ceremonious soothsayers
in their sweatbanded Stetsons.
They use the word highway because they are the Lonestar State, and proud of
their independence and all dem other 49 states am wrong.
William Taylor
Along the same lines: It's an ATM, not an ATM machine which would be
Automatic Teller Machine machine.
Nor is there an HIV virus . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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