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Subject:One-ups From:Jim Morgan <jlmorgan -at- SENDERO -dot- FISERV -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:22:49 -0700
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>>Hold on, hold on. Don't people usually refer to ships as female (she sank,
>>she sailed to Bermuda etc)? Therefore, I suggest it should be
>>"One-upsperchildvessel". What do you think?
There's still a major flaw! Are you all blind?
"Up" obviously refers to men, since the male symbol points *up* and the
female symbol points *down.* This solves it, I think:
One-down/upsperchildvessel
There! We're certainly not going to offend anyone *now.*
