OT:Re: Semi OT: Car confusion - RU86'd

[juliemac57 at hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

How about the complaint about "master" and "slave" in connection to 
networking and computers? The terms have been in use for over 20 years.
This is getting really stupid  :)



Julie Macfarlane
Menlo Park Research & Development
Internet Application Developer
www.menloparkrandd.com
www.montgomeryweb.org
Amsterdam NY





>From: Dan <dan@angband.org>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Semi OT: Car confusion - RU86'd
>Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:39:38 -0500
>
>On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:36:03PM -0600, Don Walter wrote:
> > Does anyone know where the term 86-it came from.  It comes from the part 
>number of the pill (RU86) to kill unborn babies.
> >
> > RU86 = Are you dead? killed? expired? etc...
>
>For one thing, the pill is called RU-486.  The RU has NOTHING to do
>with "Are You", it is a contraction of the French pharmaceutical
>manufacturer Roussel-Uclaf.  But the more important question is, RU-469?
>
>For another, as multiple people have pointed out, "86'ed" has NOTHING to
>do with the RU-486 pill, and predates it by decades.
>
>It's intolerant bleeding heart PC crap like this that gets people fired
>for using terms like "niggardly", which has nothing to do with certain
>phonetically similar epithets.
>
>http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-nig1.htm
>
>Dan
>
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