>>>>>>Just a thought - Just imagine if we still a 8" floppies and you had to order VS 2012 on them.
>>>>>>It would cause a bit of a stir when a semi pulls up to make the delivery.
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>>>>>Pardon the uninitiated, semi-what? Semicircle, semicolon, semiprecious stone, semiquaver, semitone, semiconductor...?
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>>>>http://www.paulreedconstruction.com/images/Semi1.jpg
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>>>And that's a half-what? If it were not a semi-truck, it would be twice as big? If it's only a half-truck, what's the other half?
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>>A trailer ? <s>
>
>Just like any other truck... and those are still not called half-trucks. There's a higher truth in there that I'm unable to grasp.

not half-truck...try half-track. rofl

http://www.mark-1-tank.co.uk/jpgs/1-6th-251-german-half-track-1033b.jpg