amazing etymologies

Peter A. McGraw pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Mon Feb 18 18:47:01 UTC 2002


Using the same connotations, it might alternatively be described as
"pi-eyed" or, in more direct reference to atmospheric gases, "pi in the
sky."

--On Monday, February 18, 2002 1:05 PM +0800 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> I think we need to revive the original expression but in a
> different form:  "The adminstration's policy on global warming is as
> irrational as pi".



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu



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