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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Due to the internet, the symbol @ having become shorthand for the word at
when it really means "at a rate of". Do you need to abbreviate a two letter word?
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:42, 5 replies)
My dad is a scientist.
Even taking basic directions, his notes quickly become an absolute unreadable mess of appreviations, symbols and apostrophes.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:44, closed)
or
the hash sign # being refered to as the pound £ sign on american telephone systems
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:46, closed)
It's because Americans are so very prissy about certain things, including drugs.
And the word "hash" couldn't possibly mean anything other than marijuana or its relatives, could it?
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 10:53, closed)

What about hash browns then?
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 11:38, closed)

Good point. I'd forgotten about those.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:56, closed)

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