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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Tennessee Ernie Fnord)
Subject: AND/OR	
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 20:10:23 GMT
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According to the ancient Gondwanalander legend,
  furuya@rads.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Ted Furuya) once said...

> My uncle would like to know if anyone knows of the compound of and as or
> used before 1855.  The earliest known vertical form of and-divided-by-or
> is well documented.

>   and/or     and
>            -------
>              or

  I once dated a lawyer's daughter.  At one point, I got a little more 
familiar with her than I really should have, and she looked at me with an 
inscrutible expression on her face and said, "Touch me there again, 
and/or you're dead meat."

-- 
      < 0 >       In this country alone,
    /=-=-=-=\       three people out of four make up 75% of the population.
  /-=-=-=-=-=-\
/=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\       Coincidence?  Conspiracy?  =You= be the judge!
