On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 21:16 -0500, Max Wellhouse wrote: > It's catastrophic to me when it leaves me stranded somewhere; be > it a burnt up ignition rotor or a hole in the block. Having said > that, I sense a definition of the word coming shortly...... Funny you should say that! Unless one of us drives his van into a city's central natural gas storage facility we're unlikely to have a Vanagon-related catastrophic event, which is "a sudden and widespread disaster." A hole in the block might be a sudden disaster, but would not be widespread. Zombie infestations can be widespread, but are seldom sudden. But if a bunch of naked pictures of (say) Ozzie Osbourne were unexpectedly released on the Internet, well, /that/ would be both a sudden and widespread disaster. I hope this clears things up. Pedantically yours, -- RJS |
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