From: utzoo!watmath!jamcmullan Newsgroups: net.singles Title: Re: Lemma 1.0 Article-I.D.: watmath.4676 Posted: Thu Mar 3 11:51:10 1983 Received: Thu Mar 3 23:36:02 1983 From utzoo!decvax!yale-com!marx Mon Feb 28 23:21:23 1983 Subject: Lemma 1.0 Newsgroups: net.singles Why is it that the dog is man's best friend, but diamond's are a girl's best friend? ???????????? I think I will put a hard copy of this in my wallet & pull it out to use as support when I have the usual argument against : everyone knows from context when we mean "a man" and when we mean "mankind" when we say "man". --Judy McMullan