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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: The Dreaded Halcyon Hoop
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Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 09:20:53 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  9 09:20:53 1985
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In article <29300015@hpfclg.UUCP> neutron@hpfcla.UUCP writes:
>dreaded "Halcyon Hoop".  The only definitions I can find for "halcyon"
>are a bird or a set of days around the Vernal Equinox, neither of which
>makes sense here.  I expected it to be some technical term in physics.

It sounds like some kind of sub-atomic particule, doesn't it?
Probably why it was used.  I'm surprised at your dictionary,
because it seems to me that the most common use for it these
days is a derivation from the idea of spring days, and means
lazy, slow, happy-go-lucky times (or something with a similar
feeling).
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}