From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 7 13:25: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (r30.bfm.org [216.127.220.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123D937BCBD for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:24:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA00238 for chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:24:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:24:07 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: FUD Message-ID: <20000607152407.A222@whizkidtech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Castle: http://www.redprince.net/ X-Special-Effects: http://www.FilmSFX.com/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks, everyone, for explaining the meaning of FUD, and its history. Hmmm... Fear, uncertainty, doubt. Seems like those methods have been around for centuries. I am surprised that Merriam-Webster has not picked it up yet (I am talking about their *online* dictionary which is supposed to check their entire database). At any rate, now I have a better word to scream whenever I see the Dell (I think it's Dell) TV commercial in which they show you several computers and say something like "this one looks apetizing, but does it come with a free color printer?" I've been saying "Oh, please!", "Give me a break!" (and some more expletive words). Now I can just say "FUD!" :) Cheers, Adam -- Can you imagine the silence if everyone said only what he knows! -- Karel Čapek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message