Why not? You've recently gotten failure turned into fail, anything could happen.

Jim

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:37 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 11:27 AM 4/15/2010, Loren Busch wrote:
>>
>> Mark has a good point here. �In the 1950's the US Navy did a study on the
>> value of 'preventative maintenance' on electrical and electronic devices.
>
> Personal non-official request -- It's "preventive" and my teeth itch
> slightly when I see it spelled the other way. �Dunno why this one
> bothers me so -- as a kid in Maine "drownded" was the common usage
> and I just thought that was cute. �Still do, along with "skellington"
> which I heard from a kid in England and was the common illiterate
> usage in 18th c.
>
> Of course if you can get "preventate" into common use then I'm the
> past tense of a male helical-threaded fastener. <g>
>
> Yours,
> d
>