Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 03. Oct 2024, 02:27:57
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On 3 Oct 2024 01:22:35 GMT, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 22:26:17 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Fun question: what does “la brea” mean?
Tar. Not quite as redundant as Rio Grande River.
One that annoys me is “Rio De La Plata”. It’s not “Plate” river, it’s
“Silver” river.
There was this guitarist named Manitas De Plata, who used to appear on The
“Marty Feldman Comedy Machine”, back in the day ...
Ah, Marty and Spike ... both mad geniuses, yet somehow different ...