Re: CP digest 110

David Purks (telenet!twinkie!dkpurks@uunet.uu.net)
Thu, 22 Sep 1994 10:50:54 -0400 (EDT)

> >
> > forgive my OBVIOUS ignorance but what is a ping?
> >
> > Louise
>
> One half of a game also known as table tennis.
>
> A sound so small that MCI would have you believe you can hear it over their
> phone lines.

Don't you mean Sprint?

(couldn't help it, just had to defend the old company honor - even if
they did sell us off!)
>
> Slang vernacular for what one is doing when relieving a full bladder.
>
> -thats all I can come up with, its too early in the morning-
> oh yeah, its also shorthand for Pinguicula, aka butterworts

They couldn't have been refering to that one (:-)

Dave
in Northern VA where it's raining (yeah! it's been awfully dry lately)
and I have to dig holes to put in a fence (euck!)