[D-community-offtopic] users and computers [was: Re: Customized Debian - Was: ...]

[Chris Bannister]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 05:10:34PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:41:52 +0100, Chris Bannister
> <cbannister at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:38:06PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >>OT for the OT, but a real joke: At a German office I've seen a women
> >                                                                 ^^^^^
> >								 woman
> 
> [out of whole cloth] She is (they are) Siamese twins. [/out of whole
> cloth] :).

Yeah, OK. One for the academics to discuss over their daily golf game.
Incidentally, is "[out of whole cloth]" a German cliche/saying?
Ummm, ... hang on ... ahhh, here we are:
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/19/magazine/on-language-out-of-the-whole-cloth.html

Weird, never heard of "out of the whole cloth" before. Live and learn. 

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