# Monsieur... *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Dec 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan Parmenter *21 Dec 1999, 10:38* > From: "Mitch Bailey" > This of course comes to us from the man who had a character spend his = > entire childhood reading "M*MILLION" as Monsieur Million. Hmmm, I always assumed the plate read: M . Million Sometimes a dot is used to indicate multiplication. "Monsieur" is often abbreviated to "M." Et voila! Or did I miss the point completely? D ---