On Friday 27 October 2017 22:47:26 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 27/10/17 17:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 26 October 2017 21:21:37 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > >> On 27/10/17 13:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Thursday 26 October 2017 15:22:35 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > >>>> " And there's also systemd, that is slowly phagocytosing the UNIX > >>>> part of Linux...." > >>> > >>> I'm old enough to have taken phonics in grade school, but that > >>> obviously invented word could probably be replaced by a 4 letter > >>> adjective... > >> > >> Invented, yes, but over 130 years ago. The term phagocyte was > >> coined in about 1883 by Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus to describe > >> the cells discovered by Ilya Mechnikov, winner of the 1908 Nobel > >> Prize in Medicine > > > > I agree. And obviously you have more educational credits hanging on > > the wall than I. > > Just my medical parents describing their then-teenage children > devouring food. :-)
ROTFLMAO! > Kind regards, Back at you. Take care. I don't think either of us wants to make the papers. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
