Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : William
Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 04:14 pm

"Chris Hills" <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote in message
news:gVTqGGBOKgADFADp@phaedsys.demon.co.uk...
> In article <c4GdnWTJqMr-ipzeRVn-3Q@giganews.com>, William
> <Reply@NewsGroup.Please> writes
>
> >An old girlfriend of mine use to call that "having a bad case
> >of the 'yeah-buts'." (As in responding to every suggestion with,
> >"Yeah, but...") Not that she ever applied the term to me, 'course
> >not :-)  -Wm
>
> Hence the "yeah! but... no! but.."  character in Little Britain

Any relation to the old guy in "The Vicar of Dibley" who
answers yes-no questions: "No, no, no, no.. yes!"?
(I know people who respond like that to sudden paradigm
shifts - not me of course. No, no, no...)  -Wm

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