On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:32:39AM -0500, Joel Schneider wrote: > When looking up the word "defenestration" on dictionary.com today, I > received an unexpected surprise: > > defenestration > n. > An act of throwing someone or something out of a window. > > or... > > 5. The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in > favor of a better OS (typically Linux). > > I found the fact that dictionary.com's response to this query included > the (misspelled?) word "Micro$oft" to be oddly pleasing... You forgot to mention that the #5 definition above is from the Jargon File section of the page, which makes the M$ spelling understandable, perhaps even expected. If only it were from the American Heritage Dictionary's definition... -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org