PRIVATE: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 21:47, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Aha! Thanks. I didn't know that.

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