On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 11:51:27AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> At 08:33 AM 5/6/01 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:31:17AM -0600, Dan Brian wrote:
> > > For your collective amuse() abuse() dismiss() I humbly submit:
> > >
> > > "duran" (or derivatives)
> > >
> > > Aside from conjuring images of "reflex", "rio", and maybe "Barbarella"
> > > for a select few, the word occurs in some interesting contexts. It means
> > > little aside from it being a last name, a city name, and bearing
> > > resemblence to some neat stuff. One bummer is the likeness to
> > > AMD's "Duron". *shrug*
> >
> >"durian".
>
> You want to name it after a fruit smelling of dead cows and sewer gas?
Oy! *I* didn't suggest the "Duran" name :-)
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