4.0143 Cyberspace; Doddle (2/21)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 29 May 90 18:41:55 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0143. Tuesday, 29 May 1990.
(1) Date: 28 May 90 12:24:32 bst (14 lines)
From: Rorschach@edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 4.0053 Cyberspace -- Conference Report
(2) Date: Tue, 29 May 90 10:32:25 BST (7 lines)
From: J J Higgins <Higgins@np1a.bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 4.0045 Doddle
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Date: 28 May 90 12:24:32 bst
From: Rorschach@edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 4.0053 Cyberspace -- Conference Report (92)
Would you care to the following statement you mad about cyberspace...
>Two things struck me about the conference. One was the intrinsically
>interdisciplinary nature of the discussion. Another was the spontaneous
>combustion of metaphysical problems raised by the plans for cyberspace.
It is as regards the metaphysical bit that I am interested.
Rorschach
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Date: Tue, 29 May 90 10:32:25 BST
From: J J Higgins <Higgins@np1a.bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 4.0045 Doddle (24)
I don't think "doddle" is particularly recent or unusual. I think the
origin is a comic mispronunciation of if your horse can win it without
hurrying, so by extension any task that requires no effort is a doddle.