That's it, exactly. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -----Original Message----- From: Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:33:40 To: <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s)
On 23 September 2013 21:56, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> wrote: > I suspect that the phrase and its variants have multiple etymologies, > with much semantic cross contamination among them. Indeed. I had imagined that any actual such contest would be engaged in only by small boys, and that the phrase is used to point out the puerile attitude of those supposedly engaged in it. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
