It is also a pun on the Polynesian food - Poi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poi_(food) - which requires a lot of pounding to prepare.
What I just learned from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poi is that Poi is a Tibetan word for Tibet. Regards, Dave On Jun 30, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Stoicescu, Adriana wrote: > Correct. > > Adriana Stoicescu - Senior Business Support Analyst, Application Service > Delivery, Enterprise IT Business Support > UTi | 100 Oceangate, Suite 1500 | Long Beach | California | 90802 | USA > astoice...@go2uti.com | O +1 562 552 9505 | > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Fortner [mailto:phidia...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 3:08 PM > To: POI Users List > Subject: Re: how to pronounce POI? > > POI rhymes with "boy". I believe it stands for "Poor Obfuscation > Implementation". > > Hope this helps, > > Mark > > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Adrian Dragulescu <adria...@eskimo.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> A simple question. What does POI stand for? Is it an acronym? >> >> How do you pronounce POI? I'd like to know how to refert to it >> appropriately. What word it rhymes to? >> >> Thank you, >> Adrian >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@poi.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@poi.apache.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Email Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer > > This email message contains information which may be confidential and > or legally privileged. Unless you are the intended recipient (or have > been authorised to receive on behalf of the intended recipient), you > may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information > contained in the message or from any attachments that were sent with > this email. If you have received this email message in error, please > advise the sender by email, and delete the message. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@poi.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@poi.apache.org
