RE: Cheese factor

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, John Atkinson wrote:

> 
> --- Derek Fulton <derekfulton@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> > A platoon 1.a military sub-unit consisting to two or
> > more sections being 
> > part of a company. 2. a company or group of persons.
> 
> And you can define a cow as "animal with four feet and
> a tail".  And for a resident of New York City that's
> perfectly adequate.  But if you work with the damn
> things you need to be more specific.

Um, iirc, you, John, told him/them to 'go look it up
in a bloody dictionary' (or words very similar to
that effect). Ya got what ya wished for...  ;-)