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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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Photostat may be annoying, but I believe there is at least a historical precedent for it's use. Photostat machines were the original photocopiers, although they were overtaken by electrostatic photocopying in the 1940s I think. Photostat was the name of the company which made them hence to photostat came to be used as a generic term for copying, in the same way as some older people use Xerox. Malaysians still use photostat as the noun and verb for photocopy. So there.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 9:34, 1 reply)
And 'enter'
is really 'return'.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 15:30, closed)

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