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(...) Well, I've tried "going dutch", anyway. Typically it would be the last date I went on with that particular girl. :-) So here's a question for the language geeks. Whyfore that phrase? The Hollanders I've met (that actually were from the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Where it not the English who came up with that phrase ? If I'm not mistaking, the've linked some very nasty habits to our nationality during the time we fought out a fierce naval war with them. There was an incident where the Dutch destoid and (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, it was the act of the theft of those ships in the Sound in 1667. It's one of the only times that London (the city of) actually *panicked* over a foreign threat. If memory serves, it was one of the fleet flagships that the Dutch made off (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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The following is a totally serious post, my apologies for posting it in .fun... In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: <more than you probably expected could be said about 17th century naval history... unless you knew the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What? I could write a book on a rowboat! Not that rowboat, that other one over there... (...) Hey! Take it to .geek! We can't be having fun in .geek, or geeks in .fun, or 911 turbos that do a quarter mile in 1.3 seconds in .loc.au! Now that (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) Very. Definitely. BTW, Larry, speaking of geeks of some sort, you're a system architect, right? My dad is writing a book (1) about system modeling, and I'm actually his editor (nobody (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've gotta ask the obvious question (or not so obvious?): Is he writing it in English or in Hebrew? Or both? As an editor myself I'm interested in how he's positioned himself and how the publishing process works outside the US and Europe. Is (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) English. (...) He hooked up with a publishing company from Europe, actually, it might even be the Netherlands, but I forget. The publishing company is getting the book out at *their* expense, and he's getting a percentage of the profit (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow!.. Little Shiri grows too fast..:-) You were fourteen when we first meet you here, right? Time really rolls too fast. Congrats..:-) Selçuk (will be officially end of his 30 (i.e. too old) in a few months) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Fifteen, but yeah, it does go by fast... sorta. ;-) I remember when you first found out how old I was (in that demented intern thread - gahh!). (...) Ahhhh, ain't no such thing as too old. If you're playing with lego, you can't be that old, (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I work in the real world and I am usually at the leading edge where we are trying to get the basic concepts down. So UML is overly precise for what I typically need to convey. I am usually at the lines and boxes level and showing a mishmash of (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Your suspicion might be well true, because your phrase "going dutch" is equal to Turkish phrase "alman usülü" which translates as "german way" and exactly means "to pay one's own expenses on a date or outing." Selçuk (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> Rereading that it sounds like I don't like/approve of UML. That would be incorrect. That it has been adopted as a standard instead of several rival notations and methodologies is a *huge( win (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Understandable. Actually, I *didn't* get the impression that you didn't like UML; I just got the impression that its uses weren't fully, well, useful to you. <shameless plug> My dad's methodology, while not directly opposing UML, challanges (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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