Synonymy avoidance

[Ed Keer]

Ok, I'd love to laugh, but I'm not getting the joke.
Help?

--- "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
> Not to mention that switching would require that the
> National Institute
> of Standards and Technology, (NIST, formerly the
> National Bureau of
> Standards, or NBS) would have to dissolve its "Henna
> Division", a cadre
> of mobile calibration standards  ready to report to
> field sites all over
> America, and replace it with a "Peroxide Squadron",
> who would need to be
> trained and otherwise brought up to speed.  Plus, "I
> Love Lucy" would be
> pulled out of the Primary Standards repository and
> replaced with
> "Baywatch".
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society
> > [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Jonathan Lighter
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:36 AM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Synonymy avoidance
> >
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> > Sender:       American Dialect Society
> <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: Synonymy avoidance
> >
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> >
> > Technically, yes. But the RCH appears to have been
> the
> > accepted measure for at least sixty years.  Any
> switch to the
> > BCH standard would require extensive industrial
> recalibration
> > that could result in a slowing of economic growth.
> >
> > Cf. the ill-fated attempt to "go metric" many
> years ago.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > James C Stalker <stalker at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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> > Sender: American Dialect Society
> > Poster: James C Stalker
> > Subject: Re: Synonymy avoidance
> >
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> >
> > But isn't an RCH bigger than a BCH?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > Jonathan Lighter writes:
> >
> > > Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer "RCH."
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
>



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