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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!fofp
- From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: The University of California at Berkeley
- Message-ID: <28303@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:05:06 GMT
- References: <1e4ep7INNrpl@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Nov16.182103.15403@twg.com> <1992Nov17.144955.492@hhcs.gov.au> <28287@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov16.182103.15403@twg.com>, nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw) writes:
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- >> !Peeve: The Naked Guy at UCB. Neighbors think he's crazy, but he seems only to
- >> have taken the constitution's protections to heart and to have started living
- >> by his principles.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^
- >I don't think you spell it like that, Nolan.
-
- principle : (noun) standard or rule of personal conduct.
- : a fundamental or general truth
- : the essence of something
- : a source, origin
- : a law concerning the behaviour of a system
- : (chem.) a constituent of a substance that gives it its
- characteristics
-
- principal : first in importance, rank, value etc
- : denoting capital or property as opposed to interest
- : (law) a person who engages another to act as his agent
- : the head of a school
- : the original amount of a loan on which interest is calculated
- : a main roof truss or rafter
- : (music) either of two types of open diapason organ stops
-
-
- >BTW, I gather that one of the Dalhousie Dimbulbs has been whining at my
- >expense. An unusual sensation. Not so much like being savaged by a sheep,
- >more like being gummed by a goldfish.
-
- How far down the scale is that?
-
- FoFP
-
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-
- We wonder why other folks regard computing people as weird while we
- persistently refer to small, square objects as "discs".
-