From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:11:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A48C5CC.9010805@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171231103417.16be2eae@digimed.co.uk>
On 31/12/17 10:34, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:26:26 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>>> Actually it was the New York World. So actually imho it was originally
>>> perfectly legit.
>>
>> I don't agree. In that case it should have been called the New York
>> World Series.
>
> If they were paying for it, they could call it what they wanted. I assume
> the paper was generally known as "The World" otherwise it would have been
> a waste of marketing money.
>
>
Actually, I believe it WAS originally known as The New York World Series.
Then presumably some marketeer decided that was too much of a mouthful,
and dropped the "New York" rather than "World" :-(
Cheers,
Wol
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-21 14:20 [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page? Mick
2017-12-21 15:16 ` tuxic
2017-12-21 18:00 ` Mick
2017-12-21 17:01 ` Jack
2017-12-21 18:28 ` Mick
2017-12-21 21:18 ` Mick
2017-12-21 21:24 ` Jack
2017-12-21 22:35 ` Mick
2017-12-21 22:46 ` Jack
2017-12-21 23:01 ` Walter Dnes
2017-12-21 23:20 ` Mick
2017-12-22 16:30 ` Mick
2017-12-27 19:45 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored Mick
2017-12-27 23:53 ` Mick
2017-12-28 6:14 ` Taiidan
2017-12-29 13:51 ` Mick
2017-12-29 13:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-12-29 14:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-29 15:01 ` Mick
2017-12-29 16:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-29 16:45 ` Wols Lists
2017-12-30 0:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-30 12:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2017-12-30 14:32 ` Wols Lists
2017-12-30 15:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-31 2:26 ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-31 10:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-31 11:11 ` Wols Lists [this message]
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