Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Henry Spencer (was Re: System V Release 4.0 Developer Conferences)
Message-ID: <1988Oct5.171705.8298@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <167@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <1988Sep22.173745.14647@utzoo.uucp> <2944@ttrdc.UUCP> <1687@ficc.uu.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 88 17:17:05 GMT

In article <1687@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>... Another Henry Spencer vote except when he's getting my goat
>by ignoring the main thrust of someone's article to jump on a nit.

Argh!  Grossly improper English usage!  One does not "jump on a nit",
one "picks a nit"!

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