From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hao!seismo!harpo!ihnp4!ihima!dhp@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: Re: Re: Off the Wall. . .
Article-I.D.: ihima.161
Posted: Thu Dec 16 11:24:10 1982
Received: Thu Dec 23 23:12:20 1982


Adam,
	A comment concerning the use of the term 'beeeelyuns'.
	A friend of mine recently invented a new word to cover
	this kind of statement: the SAGAN.  A SAGAN is an
	expression of arbitrarily large number of items in an
	amorphous collection. It is a more or less direct replacement
	for the phrase "beeeelyuns and beeeelyuns."

		Ex: "There are sagans of fools in the world."

	Note that the phrase "sagans and sagans" should not be used,
	since this is redundant.
	

					Douglas Price
					Analysts International Corp.
					at BTL (Indian Hill) IL
					...!ihnss!ihima!dhp (312) 979-4416

P.S.: My apologies if this is the second time you have seen this.
      I had some trouble cancelling the previous version of this
      article.