Subject: Re: Head's Up!*
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:54:28 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <gLSdnZeWmbTJ9MreRVn-hQ@speakeasy.net>
I was going to stop, but then...

Duane Rettig  <duane@franz.com> wrote:
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| We still have a good argument going!
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Alrighty, then!

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| Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> writes:
| > I was gonna ask if that was the possessive (the Up of the Head) or a
| > statement of fact (the Head is Up), but I restrained myself.
| 
| Yeah, just like we say in California: "Surf's Up!".
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"Surf's Up!" is indeed a simple statement of fact, but "Heads Up!"
is imperative mood, as in "Get your @$!^$# heads up if you don't
want them knocked off!"  Think prairie dogs...  ;-}


-Rob

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