[Info-vax] New HP-made Chromebook-11 Laptop

[Paul Sture]

In article <c2b71bcf-a5af-4896-858b-3a31c6748b7e at googlegroups.com>,
 AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Alright. I am in the US. I'm not familiar with the word _clot_ except 
> in terms of blood-related phenomena. Even so, _clot_ and _cloud_ are 
> not similar enough in spelling or sound for me to think it was a pun. 
> (Maybe in England they're pronounced the same.) So I thought it was 
> most likely a typo and therefore didn't want to waste my time on a 
> wild goose chase. Regardless, instead of explaining it, MG got nasty. 

Would "clod" work for you?

clod
noun
1 a lump of earth or clay.
2 informal a stupid person (often used as a general term of abuse).

ORIGIN late Middle English: variant of clot.

source: Oxford Englsh Dictionary (U.S. version), as available in
Dictionary.app on OS X.

-- 
Paul Sture

IBM's Thomas J. Watson predicted a "world market for maybe five computers".
Given the way this whole Cloud thing is going, he might have been extremely
prescient.