dogfooding

[Jonathan Lighter]

Cf. "trying it out on the dog."

JL

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Dec 4, 2011, at 10:30 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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>> I spotted this one in news preview and, if it indeed originated with
>> Microsoft, perhaps someone's already mentioned it. My apologies if this
>> is a replication.
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> posted on here:
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> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/short-shot-31-dogfood/
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> (but without any research on its origin)
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