New bad-taste milestone

[Eric Nielsen]

That sounds more reasonable than my trying to dull Occam's razor.

Only distracted, not wanting to bust anyone's milestones.

Eric


On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Why invoke computer "cache" when, as John says, a spelling error for
> "cachet" makes better sense, particularly if the writer thought it was
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> But that's not the bad-taste milestone I was thinking of.
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