RevOnline, again.

[Richmond]

On 03/06/2013 09:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 3/6/13 11:53 AM, Richmond wrote:
>
>> Let's hope it is not "flakey" (err . . . that must be an Americanism)
>>
>> [I thought "flake" was a rude word for somebody who was homosexual]
>>
>> with the Open Source version.
>
> Here in the U.S., a "flake" (disregarding pie crust and paint) is a 
> scatterbrained person with sometimes unpredictable behavior. By 
> extension, anything that works only some of the time is "flakey".
>
> It isn't any ruder than calling then a nitwit or a dunce. When applied 
> to objects or software, it's a common adjective.
>

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The duck eggs are white an the drake eggs are green;
How foolish one is, but how wise one may grow,
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