Spin-In

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:15 PM -0500 3/19/02, James A. Landau wrote:
>Some other words or phrases of interest in this article:
>...
>"stupid accounting tricks"---"stupid .... tricks" is in my
>experience a phrase used only by computer people (I remember a
>collection of "stupid UNIX tricks" in the newspaper Computerworld
>several years back) but it could easily have arisen elsewhere.
>
What about the "Stupid Pet Tricks" that Letterman has been featuring
off and on for decades?  (Spawning references to "stupid human
tricks".)

larry