Aggie derives from "agricultural school"; I assure you that the English of, e.g.,Australia, New Zealand, UK, is just as opaque to us.
Does Scotland have English terms that are understood in some regions but not all? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Jeremy Nicoll [jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 9:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: z/OSMF On Wed, 5 Jul 2023, at 14:17, Crawford Robert C (Contractor) wrote: > In the early 80's we had an adventure game written in PL/1. It was > largely table driven so I added a room full of Texas Aggies. To > retrieve the "treasure," an Aggie Joke book, you had to find a bar of > soap and throw it into the room at which point the Aggies would run out > of the room enabling you to get the book. > > For the record, I am a Texas Aggie and I understand that the joke will > be lost on 49/50ths of the US. Unless you're implying that an Aggie, whatever that is (someone from Texas A&M? - which even I, in Scotland, have heard of) is averse to soap, it's unclear. We're not all in or from the US. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
