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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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Isaac Asimov (I think) wrote a whole essay about it. About how Ur-Anus sounds filthy, but how "U-Ranus" also sounds like Urinous - similar to, or having the properties of urine.

If I recall, he proposed the use of U-RAH-Nous. Which is just silly.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 15:00, Reply)

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