From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30651 invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2006 16:06:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 30644 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Sep 2006 16:06:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from alageremail1.agere.com (HELO alageremail1.agere.com) (192.19.193.106) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:06:15 +0000 Received: from alerelay.agere.com (alerelay.agere.com [135.14.190.33]) by alageremail1.agere.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8QG6D12020518 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from PAUMAILF01.ags.agere.com (paumailf01.agere.com [135.14.186.245]) by alerelay.agere.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k8QG6CF07700 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from paumailu03.ags.agere.com ([135.14.190.64]) by PAUMAILF01.ags.agere.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:06:12 -0400 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: copper humour Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4C89134832705D4D85A6CD2EBF38AE0F7B1098@PAUMAILU03.ags.agere.com> In-Reply-To: <069e01c6e09e$a6842310$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> From: "Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" To: "the laughing policeman" Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00458.txt.bz2 Dave Korn wrote: > Fortunately the rest of the press haven't had such a serious > SOH failure! Sad to say, my personal lexer read SOH as ^A (dining too much at the ASCII table, are we?). Googling turned up all sorts of possible acronyms: Start of Header Single Origin Hypothesis Stock on Hand Society of Homeopaths Significant Other Half Sine =3D=3D Opposite / Hypotenuse Sense of ... Oh, THAT'S it! Sad to say, sometimes it's faster to google than to think these days. For stuff like this, it's often more entertaining! gsw