POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Surprise! : Re: Surprise! Server Time
11 Oct 2024 13:15:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Surprise!  
From: Brian Elliott
Date: 14 Nov 2007 04:00:11
Message: <473ab91b@news.povray.org>
"Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote in message 
news:op.t1qh73fic3xi7v@news.povray.org...
> And lo on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:43:15 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> 
> did spake, saying:
>
>> It's light amplified by stimulated emission of radiation.
>
> I've always wondered if you Yanks wished it was light amplification by 
> Zowee! emitted radiation, just so it'd be spelled 'correctly' :-P

With words like "jazz", "pizzazz", "razzle", "frazzle" and "razzamatazz" in 
the lexicon, there are too many zeds / zees buzzing around and not enough 
flyswatters.

Ugh.  Just remembered "Zazzle".  <shivers>


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