That's it, exactly. - Ted MacNEIL [email protected] Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -----Original Message----- From: Tony Harminc <[email protected]> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:33:40 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s)
On 23 September 2013 21:56, John Gilmore <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
