>...I think it had something to do with a shop where a gentleman, who was >rather >course in his speach, was working and asked his assistant to had him a file. >His assistant handed him the wrong file and he said..."no...that bastard over >there." Ever since then that type of file became known as a BASTARD >file.<GRIN>... Dear List, I greatly appreciate all the explanations that have ensued, and I seemed to have understood the gist when collectively assimilated. But it wasn't until Marvin MacDonald's post came to pass, that I finally understood how the naming truly must have come to be. :-) Thank you, Marvin, for a Jewel! Keith McGavern kam544@flash.net Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA http://www.ptg.org/1999/conv/ PTG Convention, Kansas City, July
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