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RE: Space Shuttle Costs, Billions, Wordplay, Homely Yankees
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:48:46 GMT
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Luis Villa <liv@acpub.*nospam*duke.edu>
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Tom Pierce wrote:
> Nick Taylor wrote:
> > Comments such as yours are what has given
> > rise to the "Ugly American" syndrome.
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> And to what have comments such as yours given rise? We're not so ugly. Just
> uppity.
As we phrase it here, "we're not snobs- we're just better than you."
Luis
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 | | RE: Space Shuttle Costs, Billions, Wordplay, Homely Yankees
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| Useless clarification on the billion thing: To Yanks, 'billion' means one thousand times a million (1,000,000,000) -- we use what is commonly referred to as an erroneous system that used multiples of a thousand rather than a million, as was (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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