Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 11:25:51 EDT

From: BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: % % Goverment work (saying) (fwd)



From: NAME: David Bergdahl

FUNC: English

TEL: (614) 593-2783 BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]A1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAX

To: MX%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu"[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MRGATE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAX



on gov't work: my father worked in Sperry Gyroscope (later absorbed by Remington

Rand) in Lake Success, L.I. during the war. For him "gov't work" was something

you were doing for yourself on company time. The phrase was supposed to evoke

wartime secrecy -- so anyone checking what you were doing wouldn't go further.



David

David Bergdahl Ohio Univ/Athens BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU