Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's a generally English term. From my dictionary: whizbang or whizzbang - 1. a small calibre, high velocity WW1 shell that, when discharged, travelled so that when fired in a flat trajectory the sound of it's flight was heard only in instant, if at all, before it's explosion 2.(Informal) excellent or first rate. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of > DFangon@aol.com > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:10 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] re: what's wizzbang? > > > In a message dated 7/15/02 10:24:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu writes: > > << for example, is nicely wizbang. the m6 is > slightly wizbang, >> > > In one of Philip Greenspun's articles, he spelled it whiz-bang. > Or is that > something else altogether? > Dante > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html