"slang" and "informal" as dict labels

[Mark A Mandel]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Mike Salovesh wrote:

#P.S.: Sturgeon produced his own corollaries to his classic law. Much more
#modestly, when I first read it I proposed Salovesh's Three Lemmas to
#Sturgeon's Law:
#
#1.  It ain't 90, it's 99.
#
#2.  It's worse than crap: it's shit.
#
#3.  The remainder is worth searching for, because that's what makes
#     it worthwhile to be a human being.

Mike, those are great. May I steal them for my .sig assortment, with
credit of course?

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