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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please confirm or deny my assumptions... Date: 13 Sep 1995 02:30:20 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <435fns$hd2@news.bu.edu> References: <42iots$2ld@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> <42tal9$q2s@waena.maui.com> <431elo$pe3@news.bu.edu> <432n2f$8bb@reason.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (12 Sep 1995 01:17:03 GMT) honorable Jordan K. Hubbard, residing at jkh@FreeBSD.org wrote: |mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: |> -- Why is that 2 o'clock all the time?! |> -- It is a manometer!!! |OK, OK, I give up! I'll be the first to ask! What the heck does this crazy |signature mean, anyway? I've been staring at it for months with absolutely no |idea! :-) First of all: ma.nom.e.ter \m*-'na:m-*t-*r\ \.man-*-'me-trik\ \-tri-k*l\ \-k(*-)le-\ n [F manome'tre, fr. Gk manos sparse, loose, rare + F -me'tre - more at MONK] 1: an instrument for measuring the pressure of gases and vapors : PRESSURE GAUGE 2: SPHYGMOMANOMETER - mano.met.ric aj (BTW, is there a webster port for FreeBSD?) Now the scales on manometers are different, so you can not say it is high or low when it points to where the short arrow points at 2 o'clock. The joke is about one who looks at the manometer, thinking it's a clock. Period... Sorry, will try something better understandable by the international commu- nity :-) -mi -- "When in doubt, let your horse do the thinking." "Computer hackers do it all night long..."