<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">If the halfway "mark" is as tall as the glass is, any amount of filling from 0% to 100% would be "to" this mark.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Alternately, if it's a really short glass (more like a petri dish), the meniscus curve of whatever fluid it is filled with might make a given fill amount cover both 50% of the way from the bottom and 100%.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">On Jul 17, 2014 3:58 AM, "Mike Dougherty" <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com" target="_blank">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> If a job is done poorly it is referred to as "half-assed." If the job is done well, should it be called "full-assed" or "no-assed"?</p>
</div><p dir="ltr">Full, if I understand the etymology correctly. (In short: the amount of work a donkey - or "ass" - does.)</p></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">
Is a person who does a half-assed job a victim of a disasster? bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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