Re: New buzzword

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From: R. Vuurboom
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 09:17

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In article <4197@brazos.Rice.edu> preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:
>In article <5945@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
>>Over the weekend I had call to think of THE NEXT buzzword.
>

In the search for the next high-performance buzzword some neural
cross-connection reminded me of the South African word for submarine:
pakmenooitnie (pak me nooit nie) which loosely translates as "you'll
never catch me".

I can see even now advertising offers for the standard microprocessor
version and the full-blown screamer pakmenooitnie version... :-) 

-- 
The guy who said "The good die young" may have been talking about turkeys...
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From: roelof@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (R. Vuurboom)
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Subject: Re: New buzzword
Summary: pakmenooitnie
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Date: 11 Jan 90 09:17:29 GMT
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