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

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:49:21 +0100

In message <42495F71.7D86@mindspring.com>, Ron Hardin
<rhhardin@mindspring.com> writes
>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.

While I don't wish to cast aspersions on your command of English, your
suspicions would be wrong. 

-- 
Richard Herring