Re: Pill bottle label found, reclaim at courtesy desk

"Greg Goss" <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> HVS <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>On 11 May 2008, Hactar wrote
>>
>>> In article <g07c44$522$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jen  <jenhallinan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Don K wrote:
>>
>>>>> "Scotch tape" still rolls off the tongue easier (so to speak)
>>>>> than
>>>> 'transparent tape".
>>>>
>>>> Sticky tape
>>>
>>> Teflon, I can see.  But how are duct / gaffer / electrical /
>>> foam / packing / masking tapes not sticky?
>>
>>Doesn't really matter, as it's an idiom:  it means what it means.
>>
>>You're sort of asking why the "compact" in a woman's handbag can
>>possibly be referred to as such, when lots of other things can be -- 
>>and are -- defined as "compact".
>
> Just about every car I've ever owned has been a sub-compact, but none
> of them would fit in a woman's handbag.
>
> -- 
> Tomorrow is today already.
> Greg Goss, 1989-01-27

Being the brother of 3 women and the father of 3 daughters, I have seen 
several women's handbags dumped out onto a table, and I would swear that 
there could have been a car amidst all the other stuff that they manage to

pack in there...
   ...Roy