T-Bone
Benjamin Fortson
fortson at FAS.HARVARD.EDU
Wed Mar 13 14:17:28 UTC 2002
Isn't there (or wasn't there) a jazz trombonist with the nickname
"T-Bone"? Or maybe more than one. I should know this, coming from New
Orleans, but it's only a vague recollection...
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, James A. Landau wrote:
> AOL news is currently reporting "Jury Finds Yates Case Guilty". And you
> thought President Bush had trouble with the English language...
>
> According to the orthographically challanged [their spelling] band at my
> daughter's high school, the brass instrument with the slide is called a
> "T-bone".
>
> Computer network security people refer to the part of a network on the public
> side of the firewall as the "DMZ", yes, "demilitarized zone".
>
> - Jim Landau
>
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