[Ads-l] QOTC?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yes, that's "century," though it's the last century.

"All over the Internet," as they say, though without precise source.

Not in YBQ.

1952 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. _Player Piano_ (rpt. N.Y.: Avon, 1967) 229: If
you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the
kingdom of the blind.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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