Ahhh that makes sense now... Diags... became... dikes Reminds me of a funny story...
My worst faux pas with slag was when I worked in television. A new female oriented TV station was due on the air and anyone with some spare minutes was helping by running temporary cable for some of the gear. Cables have female and male connectors.. and I needed a quick way to connect 2 video cables together.... female to female.... which was commonly called a "lesbian" So here I am yelling "Quick ! i need a lesbian... I need a lesbian !" with only minutes to the station going live. One guy who i'd known for years, gave me this look that said..."aw man now you are in trouble" Then I realized, to my chagrin, what I had been saying, while i was surrounded by many of the new trainee, mainly female, staff. Sure, all the experienced people knew what I really meant, but..... Cheers, Roy On 2010-08-09, at 6:46 PM, Phil Sherwood wrote: > Dikes are tools with handles like a pair of pliers but instead of > gripping jaws they have cutting jaws, primarily for cutting wire (but > obviously useful otherwise as well). They're sometimes called side > cutters. I've heard "dikes" is short for "diagonal cutters." > > Phil > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveabo...@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
