On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 blstuart_at_bellsouth.net wrote:
> One summer when I was teaching a summer course for some students
> in the 12-14 year old range. One of the students asked a question
> where I needed a dummy variable. So for illustration, I naturally
> named it dummy. A day or so later the program director approached
> me very concerned because the student had reported that I had called
> him a dummy.
Hmm, it seems he really was ;)
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