Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:07:57 -0400, Arthur T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 14 Sep 2006 06:44:00 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chair became accepted practice as a way of making the
position sound less sexist back when people cared.
My 1953 Webster's 2nd gives "presiding officer" as
one of the definitions of "chair". That's well before the
time you're talking about.
Thanks, Arthur. That's better than my 1973 Random House, which I was
about to quote.
I took Tom's original comment about talking furniture
to be an attempt at humor.
And it was the funniest thing I'd seen in a while. It was a good thing
I didn't have a mouth full of coffee when I read it!
Tom Marchant
As the person that made the original statement about a chair talking to
me, originally I found it funny.
When everybody else started responding I started thinking that I misused
the term "chair". So, I started going through a couple of dictionaries
and found that "chair" is a proper term for a person.
Now that I know I used the term correctly I still think it was funny.
As for this Share's attendance compared to prior years. In the same
session that the chair was talking to me, one of the tables told me that
in the late 90's they peaked at about 3000.
Well, it really wasn't a table, it was the chair again. :)
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