[rescue] obtainium or unobtainium
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Innfomail at aol.com
Tue Aug 6 11:33:36 CDT 2002
In a message dated 8/5/02 9:25:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dave at cca.org
writes:
> >"fringe" people acknowledge and talk about it. In the Burning Man
> >community (www.burningman.com), folks refer to useful stuff obtained
> >for free as "unobtainium".
>
> That's a horrible misuse of the term "unobtanium". Are you
> sure they use it that way?
>
I am on the National and local Burning Man lists and I believe they use the
term "obtainium" for found objects. At least they do locally. They drop the
"un". It was quite a shock to me to see the cross use.
Burning Man participants are very creative scroungers.
Paxton
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