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#173812From: Steve AhlstromNov 23, 1994 6:38 PM

Betty, The transcipt is clear, but I had no idea what you meant when you said "at least the inventory is at last being made". I assume you mean that an inventory list is being produced rather than the inventory itself is being produced?

#173864From: Betty Clay/SYSOPNov 23, 1994 11:02 PM

Oops. Sorry for the ambiguity. I'm sure it is the list that's being made. But….isn't an inventory, by definition, a list of the things that are on hand? —Betty

#173942From: Steve AhlstromNov 24, 1994 12:19 PM

I now understand what you mean. An inventory are the things themselves, not a list of those things. Kinda like when you go to one of those warehouse stores that advertise having "the largest inventory in town" … when you get there you expect to see product, not be handing a listing of product. -sja

#173989From: Peter JonesNov 24, 1994 2:23 PM

Steve, You are both right. Inventory: 1. A complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc, made each year by a business concern. 2. The objects or items representated on such a list, as a merchant's stock of goods. Random House. Pete, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium

#173991From: Jim MaddoxNov 24, 1994 2:38 PM

Would it have been better if she had said "at least an inventory is being taken"? – Jim, on AP!

#173993From: Steve AhlstromNov 24, 1994 2:40 PM

Jim, I don't know if it would have been "better" but I'd have understood it more easily.

#174004From: Werner KazmierzakNov 24, 1994 4:22 PM

Steve, my Concise Oxford Dictionary says: inventory, n., & v.t. 1. Detailed list (of goods, furniture, etc.); stock of goods in this. 2. v.t. Enter (goods etc.) in ~, make ~ of. So you may use the term for both a list of goods and the goods themselves. [end of saucy mode] – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany

#173889From: Brian MorrisNov 24, 1994 3:31 AM

>> The transcipt is clear, but I had no idea what you meant when you said >> "at least the inventory is at last being made". . . PMJI, but is'nt it amazing how one little four letter word can change the whole meaning of a sentence. Just ask any preacher that has had a 'Slip-of-the-Tongue' during a sermon. . . Disastrous. . . 8^) Kickin' back an enjoyin' the view with AutoPilot engaged.

#174234From: Black Belt SystemsNov 26, 1994 12:48 AM

Hence the reverend Spooner, source of "Spoonerisms": "I am the way and the life" came out in the pulpit as… "I am the lay and the wife" Even three letter words can get you, sometimes. :^) –Ben …via AutoPilot

#174385From: Brian MorrisNov 26, 1994 11:34 PM

Happens to be all the slime. me all the time. . . all the time. (gees I hate when that happens) 8^) Brian