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Tiger Direct has the Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB SATA 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $60 - $10 rebate [Exp 1/5] - $10 rebate [Exp 1/4] = $40 with free shipping. Features a 7200rpm rotational speed, 16MB cache, and a SATA 6.0Gb/s interface.
$40
Whats worse then having to mail in a $10 rebate? Having to mail in two of them but hey it's Tiger Direct so your not going to get them anyways so why bother.
The $40 AR is gone, but it's now $50 AR. Still a pretty good deal for this drive.
Tiger's rebates are now through 4myrebate. I've NEVER had a problem with 4myrebate, but I also follow the rules to the tee.
To a T
Meaning
Exactly; properly. Often used in the phrase 'suits to a T'.
Origin
'To a T', which is sometimes written 'to a tee', is an old phrase and is first recorded in James bacon's satire The Humours and conversations of the town, 1693:
"All the under Villages and Towns-men come to him for Redress; which he does to a T."
It is difficult to determine the origin of this phrase. It would be helpful to know the correct spelling; 'T' or 'tee'. The proposed derivations that assume the latter are:
The phrase derives from the sports of golf or curling, which have a tee as the starting or ending point respectively. The curling usage would seem to match the meaning better as the tee is the precise centre of the circle in which players aim to stop their stones. However, neither sport is referred to in any of the early citations of the phrase and there's really no evidence to support either derivation apart from use of the word 'tee'. The 'to a tee' version isn't recorded at all until 1771 when J. Giles used it in his Poems:
"I'll tell you where You may be suited to a tee."
John Jamieson, in the etymological dictionary Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1867, records 'to a tee' as 'to a tittle'. If even a 19th century Scots lexicographer doesn't support the Scottish sports origin they would seem to lack credibility.
Given bacon's earliest 'to a T' usage and the lack of evidence to support the 'tee' version, it is safe to assume the proper spelling is 'to a T'. So, what T was meant? Again, there are alternatives; 'T-shirt', or 'T-square', or some abbreviation of a word starting with T.
'T-shirt' is clearly as least 300 years too late, has no connection with the meaning of the phrase and can't be taken as a serious contender.
'T-square' has more going for it, in that a T-square is a precise drawing instrument, but also lacks any other evidence to link it to the phrase.
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Suddenly your posts seem less uneducated and stupid.
I minored in that at college... Thanks for noticing...
On another note, this is a pretty good deal:
WD Elements SE WDBPCK5000ABK Portable 500 GB External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 $40 after a $30 mail in rebate
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1934664&srkey=W10-9042
Rebate linky:
http://static.highspeedbackbone.net/rebates/TD-8252%20%28US%29.pdf