From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 08:23:07 GMT
>> and the tempest (yikes!) wasn't directed at you.
> I know that too. I do not understand why a tempest if we were talking
> about technical questions.
Some people find your suggestion quite terrifying... :-)
>> Don't bite my head off.
> What does it means? But if it means that I will attack you, take it
> easy!!!
It means, in this case, "Don't start another tempest - at least, not
until you've read the rest of the e-mail!"
> Frank, what means yikes?
Not sure where it originates - maybe Scooby Doo. We'll see. Maybe Sarah
Michelle Geller will get to say "Yikes!" in her new movie? Anyway, usually
it means: "Uh, oh! I'm about to be crushed by a falling piano!"
Tchau,
Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and
wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.
--- Philip Roth
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