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

[Randy Kramer]

On Tuesday 22 January 2013 11:09:29 am Chris Bannister wrote:
> 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-clo
>th.html

Well, the article above says the meaning has changed, from being a good thing 
to being a bogus thing.  But, some people in England (that I've dealt with) 
still use the older meaning, so you have to be careful to whom you are 
talking.

(Or, those people were putting me on, but I don't think so.)

Randy Kramer