XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
   Speaking (in sci.lang) of Andy Grove, he uses waffle in the above sense in his   
   good, well-edited ‘High Output Management.’ In my youth I would only have   
   used   
   or understood the word in the meaning ‘to ramble on, to say nothing of much   
   consequence,’ and OED2 documents that the fail-to-make-a-decision sense is   
   colloquial or non-standard.   
      
   I presume I have misunderstood various Americans over the years in not picking   
   up on the ‘dither’ meaning. How universal is that meaning over there?   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)