Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site caip.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!pyramid!pyrnj!topaz!caip!STEINER From: STEINER@RED.RUTGERS.EDU Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: great typo in "Stainless Steel Rat is Born" Message-ID: <231@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 21:33:22 EST Article-I.D.: caip.231 Posted: Sat Oct 26 21:33:22 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 05:17:43 EST Sender: daemon@caip.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 40 From: DaveFrom: nsc!chuqui@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chuq Von Rospach) Subject: great typo in "Stainless Steel Rat is Born" Date: 16 Oct 85 16:01:55 GMT As long as we're talking about typos, I just started Harrison's new book "A Stainless Steel Rat is Born" (Spectra, $2.95). There is a REALLY cute typo in the first chapter (page 4, as a matter of fact) that goes "Imagine if you can -- and you will need a fertile imagination indeed -- a one-tonne angry boar hog with sharp tushes and mean dispositions." I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be sat upon by that animal..... You don't suppose they really meant tusks, do you??? *giggle* Chuq Von Rospach Currently: nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA {decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,pyramid}!nsc!chuqui Soon to be: ..!sun! I thought this was great the first time I saw this. I laughed for quite a while. I even told some people about it. Guess what one of them had to say? He thought that tushes wasn't a typo...that it did mean tusks. So I looked it up in my Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary and found the following (/e means upsidedown, /u means a bar over, and /o means a bar over): tush \'t/esh\ n [ME @i(tusch), fr. OE @i(t/usc); askin to OFris @i(tusk) tooth, OE @i(t/oth) tooth]: A long pointed tooth; @i(esp): a horse's canine. Oh well, it would have been funny if it were a typo, but looks like it's not. Good try though. ds -------