blinking is evil
Simon Slater
pyevet at iinet.net.au
Fri Mar 13 07:53:33 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 15:48 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> Michael> glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full.
> Michael> Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
>
> You missed:
>
> Pedant: You can't say half-empty or half-full. Empty and full are
> absolutes. Half-emptied or half-filled is better.
>
> Colin (part-time pedant).
And an engineer from Melbourne would build a pipeline from the Murray to
fill it.
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Hooroo,
Simon
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