Haruspicina literally means 'divination by inspection of entrails'. Peak usage in 1913-1914 of 0.0000005287% (http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=haruspicina&year_start=1500&ye ar_end=2010&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=)
lituus is (in ancient Rome) a crook-shaped staff used by augurs for divination. Peak usage in 1795 of 0.0000148396% (http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lituus&year_start=0000&year_en d=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=) So let's stop the flaming. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Tony B. AOL Mozilla > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:38 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: My Last Days as a Sysprog > > OK now Gilmore, that last sentence made my head spin. .........more > coffee, more coffee........... > > > > On 2/4/2013 6:14 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > > Working habits and methods vary widely. Results are crucial, the > path > > taken to reach them is not. > > > > Haruspicina is messy; but If, improbably, an augur got good results > by > > framing a cloud bank with his lituus, I would applaud. > > > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM- > MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
