Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?

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From: ~BD~
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:10

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FromTheRafters wrote:
> "John Slade"<hhitman86@pacbell.net>  wrote in message
> news:NXi6o.35931$F%7.12219@newsfe10.iad...
>> On 8/3/2010 2:47 PM, Buffalo wrote:
>>> Dustin wrote:
>>>> That's like some electricians I know that call all 9" linemans
>>>> pliers
>>>> klein, even tho they aren't. As klein is actually a company name.
>>>
>>> Hey, how did you know I am a licensed electrician?
>>> And yes, it is common in the trade to call them 'kleins', like in,
>>> 'can I
>>> borrow your kleins?'
>>> Buffalo :)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>         It's like people calling powdered drink mix from Flavor Aid,
>> "Kool-Aid". I'm sure we've all heard the expression, "Drinking the
>> Kool-Aid" when talking about someone who follows something or someone
>> blindly. Well it came from the Jim Jones tragedy in Jonestown, Guyana.
>> They drank poisonded Flavor Aid but most people still call it
>> Kool-Aid.
>
> Same sort of thing applies to crescent wrench (Crescent is a brand name
> of a very popular open end adjustaqble wrench). Crowbar is another,
> where a wrecking bar is almost always incorrectly called a crowbar.
> Dykes are a misnomer for the shortening of the tool known as a "diagonal
> cutter".
>
> Most people don't care about using correct terminology, and so there is
> often confusion and shouts of *mere semantics* when someone tries to
> inform them.
>
>

I'm gonna have to go get my vacuum cleaner and Hoover up some of the 
debris here!

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