On 2015-01-31 19:00, cctalk-request at 
classiccmp.org wrote:
  On 01/30/2015 11:23 AM, js at 
cimmeri.com wrote:
> It's not a pond.. it's an ocean.  Why do some people insist on
> calling it a
> pond? 
Because a pond is rather smaller than an ocean.
The same logic as when I was at school and milk was known as "bull",
because milk comes from a cow, which is the opposite sex to a bull.