Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site hoptoad.uucp Path: utzoo!hoptoad!tim From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: alt.flame Subject: Re: nitpicking Message-ID: <3087@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 22:25:39 EDT Article-I.D.: hoptoad.3087 Posted: Tue Sep 29 22:25:39 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Oct-87 00:47:06 EDT References: <296@ndmath.UUCP> <4568@oberon.USC.EDU> Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Organization: Sun Microsystems, TOPS Division, Berkeley Lines: 14 Keywords: flamage In article <4568@oberon.USC.EDU> seidel@skat.usc.edu (Starman) writes: >In article <296@ndmath.UUCP> nj@ndmath.UUCP (Narciso Jaramillo) writes: > >>(Oh, and since this is alt.flame, I might as well ask a question that's been >>bothering me: is it "flamage" or "flameage"? I never get those stupid >>spelling rules straight...) > >Neither. It's flamestuff. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the proper scientific term is "phlogiston". Followups to talk.origins. -- Tim Maroney, {ihnp4,sun,well,ptsfa,lll-crg}!hoptoad!tim (uucp) hoptoad!tim@lll-crg (arpa)