From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Dec 11 1999 - 09:53:26 MST
> > spike: ...then yahoos need not argue about when the new
> > millennium starts.
>
> m wrote: Calling people Yahoos will bring a Swift response! :)
Har. {8^D The term yahoo has enjoyed a resurgence and amelioration
(is amelioration the opposite of pejoration?) in recent years with the
Yahoo company being so successful, but I have been using it for
25 yrs (since reading Swift) to mean an enthusiastic but unrefined
person.
Yahoo took that word away from me. {8-[ {8^D spike
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