[Info-vax] How about RdB for x86 VMS?

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de
Tue Sep 9 19:24:19 EDT 2014


In article <49248a87-8f89-4bc5-a730-a137a32e2d66 at googlegroups.com>,
mcleanjoh at gmail.com writes: 

> Perhaps folk outside Oz don't understand this...
> 
> Buckleys & Nunn was a large department store in Melbourne, Australia, for decades, closing I believe, in the 1960's.
> 
> "Buckleys" is therefore short for "Buckleys and Nunn" and means "none". Often said in response to a question about the chances of something happening.

Ozzy Cockney rhyming slang.

Cockney rhyming slang is so bizarre it's good, once one gets used to it. 
These days, one can get lots of info from the innertubes, so go have a 
butcher's.




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