Lloyd Sponenburgh:
I know this trivia ... but most don't.

Mark Brader:
That's what you think.

Lloyd Sponenburgh:
Nope, it has a quite definite etymology, but a rather exotic one.

Go on, then. Prove it.
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Mark Brader, Toronto | "Gadgetry abounded everywhere, almost all of which
| he could justify." -- Robert Asprin