[rescue] Cheap like fire

[Andrew Weiss]

On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 03:25 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On February 1, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>>>> I had NY System Weiners tonight.  Tommorow I will be *lethal*.
>>>
>>>   I've been called a System Weiner before.
>> <PEDANTIC>
>> I would assume you're talking about WIENERS (aka frankfurters)
>>
>> Weiner is a person who makes wine and also a common last name
>> Wiener is the correct word which means a person or thing that comes 
>> from
>> Vienna.
>>
>> </PEDANTIC>
>
>   Remind me to never again try to crack a joke around you.
>
>      -Dave
>
The joke wasn't lost, quite funny... even though I'm not quite sure what 
a NY System Wiener is... ?... (actual hot dog?)

I think that's one of maybe 3 words that drives me nuts when it's 
spelled the opposite way, and not nuts in a serious fashion but rather a 
"gotta straighten the pictures ob/comp way".   Sort of like effect vs. 
affect.

Andrew