PRIVATE: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Tue May 26 14:46:56 CDT 2020


On Tue, 26 May 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
>>> I do not know what a "sheering section" means.
>> Typo: "cheering".  :-)
>
> Aha! I still didn't know, but that, I could Google. Gotcha.

In USA urban slang, "sheep" is sometimes used to refer to gullible masses 
(particularly in a political context)

"Shearing the sheep" means profiting from the gullible masses.

Almost certainly NOT the original intent, but I thought that it was funny.


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