Three things I learned later than everyone else on the planet: 1) the Geico lizard is a gecko-- get it? Geico . . . gecko-- I didn't; 2) 9/11 has the same digits as 911, which is the number most people in America call when there is an emergency-- coincidence? who knows, but it never dawned on me; 3) the "re:" that shows up in e-mail headers stands for "regarding," I'm not sure what I thought it stood for, maybe "reply," but mainly I ignored it-- and I just learned this fact last Friday.
Well, you should be the first to know that in "The Big Lebowski" when The Dude is writing a check for $.69 to buy half and half at the beginning of the movie, and Bush Sr. is on the tv screen saying, "This aggression will not stand" that his check is dated 9-11.
ReplyDeleteAnd you should further know that said check is post-dated as a few days later, Lebowski's landlord invites him to the 'what-have-you' while also politely reminding him that it was 'already the tenth' and The Dude had not yet paid his rent.
ReplyDeletebut he does take "notes" for his free-form dance performance . . .
ReplyDeleteThe RE: in the subject line is for "Reply" and appears when you hit the Reply button.
ReplyDeleteSame as FW: is for "Forward" when you hit the Forward button. (Not "For Whatit'sworth" or anything like that.)
RE: in the body of a message, document, text message, etc, means "regarding."
"Dave, I wanted to talk to you RE: the reply/regarding thing."
The Latin "in re" in the body of a message also means regarding.
Dave, have you seen the film "Anvil! The Story of Anvil"? It seems right up your alley.
ReplyDeletenot to complicate things, but the re: in an email header both *means* regarding and *indicates* a reply. the new message is regarding an earlier message.
ReplyDeleteah, fuck it. nobody cares.