[css-d] Peculiar contraction

I've seen the contraction How's about ... here two or three times in recent days. Can someone please tlell me what it means? What does the apostrophe replace? B. Somers __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Peculiar contraction

I think I was the one to use it first (recently); it is just a colloquial form of how about, intended solely for humerous effect, and possibly modelled on the how the average speaker of Br.E believes that the average speaker of Am.E speaks ... ** Phil (native speaker of Br.E).