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Nuts to it, I'll just use the other option.
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One of the old sayings that has come to mean something it was never really intended to. Now it means "help yourself." It originally meant "do an impossible thing." So many old expressions have come to mean the opposite of what they originally did, frequently by leaving out half of the quote.pull yourself up by your own bootstraps
I recently stumbled across a show I had forgotten about that made me wonder if it was the source of that song. "One Step Beyond" was an early '60s show, similar to "The Twilight Zone", that was supposed to feature horror stories based on true events.
I can vouch for the radio show version. Pretty decent listen, and (like most OTR stuff) easily found on youtube and other places online.I recently stumbled across a show I had forgotten about that made me wonder if it was the source of that song. "One Step Beyond" was an early '60s show, similar to "The Twilight Zone", that was supposed to feature horror stories based on true events.
One Step Beyond
As an extension of the tradition of radio horror dramas, this program sought out and re-created real stories of the supernatural for each episode.tubitv.com
That term gets used a lot in software testing.I'm guessing the biggest use of "bootstrap" for the past 35 years or so has been in statistics where it has been one of the two big modern tools (the other being Markov chain Monte Carlo). It gets its name for an analogy to pulling oneself up by their bootstraps (reusing the sample data).
Bootstrapping (statistics) - Wikipedia
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For new words, I love reading Jack Vance stories. He'll throw a term on a story, and you try to gutta its meaning from context, then check the dictionary to see if it's a real word and if you got the meaning close. If it's a term he made up out of while cloth, He'll include a footnote on the page with his definition.
We fans used to joke he was going to have a footnote in the first line of his autobiography, then he went ahead and put one in the title!
That term gets used a lot in software testing.