[Ads-l] equine eggcorn

James Landau 00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Thu Feb 25 16:22:10 UTC 2021


Somewhat off topic for "horse bath":  a stockbroker told me that a narrow difference between bid and ask prices is a "wife's spread" but a wide difference is a "whore's spread"
Also a new computer proverb:  Debugging is like being in a mystery story where you are the murderer.

James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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