Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site asgb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!asgb!devine From: devine@asgb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: P.U.? Message-ID: <602@asgb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 13:12:40 EST Article-I.D.: asgb.602 Posted: Wed Dec 19 13:12:40 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 00:50:13 EST Reply-To: devine@asgb.UUCP (Bob Devine) Organization: Burroughs Corporation, Boulder Colo. Lines: 11 While in the course of discussing lofty and important things, a person wondered what does "PU" stand for? It's one of the first thing kids learn when visiting strange Uncle Ralph or when someone had beans the previous night. So, is it a farming term -- Pungent Udders, Putrid Ewes (-: Or is it derived from Latin/Greek origins -- Pungentus Udderusess. Ecclesiastical start -- after all, people sit in pews.... Bob