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

[AEF]

On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:04:36 AM UTC-4, Paul Sture wrote:
> In article <c2b71bcf-a5af-4896-858b-3a31c6748b7e at googlegroups.com>,
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>  AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Alright. I am in the US. I'm not familiar with the word _clot_ except 
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> > in terms of blood-related phenomena. Even so, _clot_ and _cloud_ are 
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> > not similar enough in spelling or sound for me to think it was a pun. 
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> > (Maybe in England they're pronounced the same.) So I thought it was 
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> > most likely a typo and therefore didn't want to waste my time on a 
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> > wild goose chase. Regardless, instead of explaining it, MG got nasty. 
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> Would "clod" work for you?
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> clod
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> noun
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> 1 a lump of earth or clay.
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> 2 informal a stupid person (often used as a general term of abuse).
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> ORIGIN late Middle English: variant of clot.
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> source: Oxford Englsh Dictionary (U.S. version), as available in
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> Dictionary.app on OS X.

Almost. I suppose in some instances it might work, but no guarantees.

I guess our posts on _clod_, crossed.

OK.

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

AEF