Re: Steven Brust Firefly Novel

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:30:22 -0900, nanook wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:05:07 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> 
>> IIRC your BI == 1.  No sweat.
>
> Sorry, I'm in my second half century,

M33 +00.

> translation please?

"If I recall correctly, your Breidbart Index equals one.  No sweat."

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/spam-faq/

It was a joke.

(And I can never remember his name--"Breiderbart"? "Beiderbart"? damage
from living a half-century in America, I reckon.)

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