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Re: nonsensical idiom
Posted By: Wolfspirit, on host 216.209.211.25
Date: Friday, December 24, 1999, at 22:46:15
In Reply To: Re: nonsensical idioms posted by Darien on Wednesday, December 22, 1999, at 20:12:37:

> > BTW, this is somewhat off-topic, but did you know that the spell checker in MS Word 97 lets you get away with misspelling the word for a thousand-year period as "millenium"?
>
> It also doesn't know the word "chainsaw," as I discovered one day. I didn't realize it was a local slang term, m'self.

Hmmm... Kinda wondering why you were writing about a "chainsaw" in MSWord. (Should I be worried? :-)

Wolf "I honestly wanted to get a perfectly useful, low-torque chainsaw for my Mother -- but Dave nixed that idea front and center" Spirit of Christmas Present