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From: fraser@synopsys.com (Fraser Wilson)
Subject: Re: What is a queue?
Date: 1999/02/10
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I nearly cried when adam@irvine.com said:

>Hmmm, my Merriam-Webster's Ninth New Collegiate (1984) gives "French,
>literally, tail" as the origin of the word.

Oh, wow.  No wonder I've seen 'queue' used to denote that pony
tail that guys sometimes have.  And they say the internet can't
teach us anything.  Ha!

Fraser.