[BC] Use of the familiar

[Cowboy]

On Friday 26 September 2008 10:40 am, Mark W. Croom wrote:
>  Some folks still want to "put the pedal to the metal" too, but unless you're
>  driving some kind of truck there's just about always carpet in between the
>  pedal and the metal, right?
>  
>  Hopefully no stock car drivers were insulted by this post.

 Depends on whether you do it often enough to have worn a hole
 in the carpet at that point !

 We still talk of "keying the mic" even in broadcast, when all that
 was ever "keyed" was the key ! Usually a J-38, which predates
 microphones *at all* by a bit.

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Cowboy