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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
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Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law
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Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 10:26:32 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 22 10:26:32 1985
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Summary: 

The way I heard it, Sturgeon's Law went, "90% of everything is crud."
(Crap and shit can sometimes be useful, if only as manure.  Crud is by
definition useless.)  If true, this reprents an intereting case of
popular myth cacophemizing a saying.

--Lee Gold