Greetings, Jim!
  On 04 Apr 98, Jim Sanders entered the following ASCII codes for the express 
viewing pleasure of Bill Wunsch:
 JS>      In a message dated 04-02-98 you wrote ...
 JS>
 >>  JS> SWAG  (scientific wild ass guess)
 >>
 >> Used to have that hanging on the wall as one of the three principles
 >> when doing electronic design work.  The other two were:
 >>
 >> KISS (keep it simple, stupid)
 >> TLAR (that looks about right)
 JS>
 JS>
 JS>      Very good.  But they were stolen from the old
 JS>  U. S. Army Force.  What we were called before being
 JS>  separated from the Army. Know by we old-timers as
 JS>  the "Brown Shoe" Air Force.
What wasn't stolen from somewhere else?  They still can't aggree on where the 
term "bug" came from, as in buggy software or equipment.
I had a customer that was a Veterinarian that got quite a chuckle when he 
first saw the SWAG listing.  Said that was the way DVMs diagnosed things - 
little bit of scientific evidence and the rest a guess based on years of 
experience.
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