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From: mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: What is Objective C?
Summary: Whence came Pete?
Keywords: C++, Objective C
Message-ID: <428@mole-end.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 90 09:36:05 GMT
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In article <4998@pegasus.ATT.COM>, hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen) writes:

> 					Tony Hansen
> 				att!pegasus!hansen, attmail!tony
> 				    hansen@pegasus.att.com
> 
> P.S. Where does the expression "For Pete's sake" come from?

Well, since you asked it on this newsgroup ...

In *The Great Divorce* by C. S. Lewis, one character says ``I have only
been trying to please *you*, for peace sake.''  As in `for peace's sake,'
as in `for the sake of peace.'

I don't know if this is the real derivation, but seems plausible.

Now, would someone tell us the derivation of `For the love of Mike ...'?
-- 

 (This man's opinions are his own.)
 From mole-end				Mark Terribile