On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Per Bothner <xxxxxx@bothner.com> wrote:

On 08/18/2014 03:38 PM, John Cowan wrote:

Kevin Wortman scripsit:

"hysterical raisins" should be "historical reasons" right?

It's a joke: see <http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.html>

It's a rather obscure in-joke. I'd change it to a link.

Seconded, a link would be nice, esp. since some people consider pejorative uses of "hysterical" to be sexist.

Kevin Wortman