From: glen mccready
To: Dead Beef <0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:05:33 -0400
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 15:05:02 -0400 From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com> To: /dev/null@python.bostic.com Subject: The term 'and' includes 'or', and 'or' includes 'and'. Forwarded-by: rob@plan9.att.com Excerpted from a subpoena issued by Packard Bell to Apple: The past tense includes the present tense, and the present tense includes the past tense .... The term 'person' means natural persons .... The singular form of a noun or pronoun shall be considered to include within its meaning the plural form of the noun or pronoun and vice versa .... The term 'and' includes 'or', and 'or' includes 'and'. -- From Computerworld, July 24, 1995 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Subpoena, n.: From the root "sub", below, and the Latin "poena" for male organ or penis. Therefore, "below the penis" or "by the balls."