Re: Of flowers and aspersions (seen on aus.dvd)

From: Ron Hardin (rhhardin_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:00:14 GMT

Jacques Guy wrote:
>
> "People who live in Usenet shouldn't be casting nasturtiums at other
> Usenet inhabitants..."
>
> This is the second time in... oh, say, 25 years that I see this
> expression. The first time was from an Australian girl who
> must have been in her twenties. I just did a Google search
> and got 362 hits. Has anyone else here come across it?

I'd suspect it came from ``nasty'' if I heard it, assuming it means
something bad. 

-- 
Ron Hardin
rhhardin@mindspring.com
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

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