my own connotation would be late night television infomercials - "it
slices it dices, and more..."
However I love the word. When I hear it today, because of Friam, it
evokes to memory our resident Welsh physicist, raising his finger with a
knowing smile on his lips, saying, "...aaah, but it is more complicated
than that!"
davew
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015, at 02:45 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Nick wrote:
>> By
the way, I hate that word problematic. It suggest to
anybody as old as I am that there is somewhere in NYC a
cafeteria, called a Problemat, where one can purchase a
juicy problem by putting a few coins in the door of the
problem you like, and pulling it out, piping hot and ready
to chew on. I have gone looking for that store in NYC, and
never found it.
>
>
And I always thought Problemats were similar to Bureaucrats...
people who made a life's work of either creating or perhaps solving
Problems... or more likely *creating* problems so we have something
to *solve*! All of us on this list are therefore Problemats of one
stripe or the other, the only disagreement is who is who!
>
>
I like your apprehension of the word better, it is somehow...
ahem... "less problematic" than mine! Oh... and can you break a
buck, I see a two-bit problem there in the machine I'm
interested in!
>
>
- Steve
>
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