Re: Marvel at my stupidity

[Deborah McDaniel <DeborahM -at- CAPTURA -dot- COM>]

Hee-hee
I had a boss who would speak of "taking a different tact" when speaking of
strategies.

Deborah McDaniel
Technical Writer
Captura Software, Inc.
deborahm -at- captura -dot- com

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From: Cirrus Matusek [mailto:CMatusek -at- LTDCOMMODITIES -dot- COM]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:24 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: Marvel at my stupidity

I know someone who says, in reference to nit-picking, "Quit knitting picks."

I laugh just thinking about it!
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> I had a friend who when he wanted to stop something before it got out of
> hand
> would always try to "nip it in the butt."
>
>
>
>
> I plan to add it to my list of misheard/misinterpreted words and phrases
> that
> make a kind of sense anyway. "For all intensive
> purposes" is another one I've seen recently. I see "mute point" every once
> in a
> while. "Low and behold" mostly just bugs me.
>
> The worst part about these, from the perspective of a writer/editor, is
> that
> most of them pass the spell checker--and many of them
> make it past pretty decent editing, because they're so *almost* right.
>
> Julie Comstock-Fisher           Documentation Manager
> julief -at- pdainc -dot- com                           PDA, Inc.
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> I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
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