Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: A linguistic question Message-ID: <288@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 20:29:32 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.288 Posted: Wed Dec 19 20:29:32 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 23:42:25 EST Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 12 *** YOUR MESSAGE *** Which came first, the word "dunsel", or the episode "The Ultimate Computer"? I've seen it used around here by people who have no idea where it came from. -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph "Computers are like preppies: they just boil around in their own way and you have to do things their way or they blow you off." "Everything that was different was a different thing..."