On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Tim Delaney <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > Before I go look it up, I'm guessing that the etymology of "stumped" is > actually coming from the problem of a plough getting stuck on a stump (i.e. > can't progress any further). Not much of an issue anymore since the > invention of the stump-jump plough: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump-jump_plough >
Australian inventiveness! We were too lazy to dig out the stumps before ploughing, so we came up with a solution. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
