Re: Fun pairs

Subject: Re: Fun pairs
From: "Sherman,Diane R" <Diane -dot- R -dot- Sherman -at- KP -dot- ORG>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:02:35 -0700

Jason Willebeek-LeMair wrote:

Thanks to one of my previous bosses, there was a department of the
company looking for an "escape goat" for a project gone awry. Oddly
appropriate. . .


---> one of my previous bosses said that if we added another chapter to
the manual, the documentation would be too voluptuous.
[pretty sure he was trying for "voluminous," though i didn't dare look
to see if his gaze had wandered off somewhere ...]

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>Emru Townsend wrote:
>
Here's a question: how about hyphenated words? Is it just me, or do
>people seem to love sticking in hyphens unnecessarily?

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> --->yes, it's just-you.

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