Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!nessus From: nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.cooks Subject: Re: Zap! Message-ID: <2230@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 20:41:33 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2230 Posted: Fri Jan 18 20:41:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 04:31:17 EST References: <817@amdahl.UUCP> <3978@ucbvax.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: The Patriarchy of Kzin Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.nlang:2437 net.cooks:3334 > How about 'nuke'. Has the right amount of wry humor, esp. in the > politically correct Bay Area. > > Steve U. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I've heard some of the programmers around here use 'nuke' to mean 'destroy', as in "the program nuked the file-system". For 'microwave', I've heard 'wave' used as a verb. But then, I refer to ice cubes as "thermal attenuators". Kchula-Rrit