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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