mid-aughts

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Thu Mar 15 19:50:33 UTC 2007


>At 3/14/2007 06:50 PM, Wilson wrote:
>>However, I am forced
>>to admit that the number of occasions upon which I need to speak or
>>write of the "least common denominator" is vanishingly small.
>
>Wilson has thus moved on to calculus.

Or, as my calculus teacher would have said, "Wilson has thus moved on to the calculus."

I dunno why he always used a "the" in front of it.  (I've heard people talking about getting
"the cancer" instead of "cancer".)

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