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I don't think he knew it was named after a fruit, and I still haven't really worked out why it is.
[Research In Motion] settled on the name "BlackBerry" only after weeks of work by Lexicon Branding Inc., the Sausalito, California-based firm that named Intel Corp.’s Pentium microprocessor and Apple’s PowerBook. One of the naming experts at Lexicon thought the miniature buttons on RIM’s product looked "like the tiny seeds in a strawberry," Lexicon founder David Placek says. "A linguist at the firm thought straw was too slow sounding. Someone else suggested blackberry. RIM went for it."[12] Previously the device was called LeapFrog, alluding to the technology leaping over the current competition. I hope that tinners has noted that 'straw' sounds too slow...  I was going to comment about the black tie (both tinners losing the trousers on a train and the edible photo) but decided that my comments were superfluous to the already eloquent rejoinders posted here.  By the way, hh, your new avatar is stunningly beautiful.
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« Reply #3991 on: 21:09:02, 26-03-2008 » |
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replace the old slightly lame Latin BlackBerry joke Oh, is that what it was? I remember something about 'fructis', but I must admit I never really tried to work out what it all meant. - The dog ate my Blackberry. Told you it was lame ... |
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« Reply #3992 on: 21:20:46, 26-03-2008 » |
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[Research In Motion] settled on the name "BlackBerry" only after weeks of work by Lexicon Branding Inc., the Sausalito, California-based firm that named Intel Corp.’s Pentium microprocessor and Apple’s PowerBook. One of the naming experts at Lexicon thought the miniature buttons on RIM’s product looked "like the tiny seeds in a strawberry," Lexicon founder David Placek says. "A linguist at the firm thought straw was too slow sounding. ..." Surely the main problem with 'StrawBerry' would have been that they're red.  I've been to Sausalito! |
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« Reply #3993 on: 21:38:32, 26-03-2008 » |
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By the way, hh, your new avatar is stunningly beautiful.
Why thank you. Some may say that it has that in common with its avatee... But less narcissisticly, I've just posted more about my avatar on the Avatars! thread. |
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« Reply #3994 on: 00:11:07, 27-03-2008 » |
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replace the old slightly lame Latin BlackBerry joke We had a new managing director, who'd just arrived from the sister company in France, and I walked by his office one day after lunch carrying a box of blackberries which I'd just bought from that nice fruit stall near Holborn tube station. So is it true that all Frenchmen wear stripy jumpers and Black berets? |
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« Reply #3995 on: 00:19:56, 27-03-2008 » |
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So is it true that all Frenchmen wear stripy jumpers and Black berets?
No. But his predecessor (who was also French) was the most stereotypical comedy Frenchman you'd ever met (not always so comedy when you had to work with him though, although I seemed to get on with him better than most people did). |
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« Reply #3997 on: 11:06:08, 27-03-2008 » |
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Whee; I start work, tomorrow (all of a sudden!) for Ireland's premier political party, for a period of three weeks.
This is good! I had actually totally given up on the temp agency. AAAND I get to be on the inside of a political party. Wheeee.
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« Reply #3998 on: 11:11:41, 27-03-2008 » |
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Been naughty this morning but very happy as I've had a pampering session with a back and shoulder massage and on the way back ... bought three new pairs of shoes. (Like I needed shoes!)  Off to lunch at 12 with best mate who is feeling much better after serious illness, so all is well in Millyland today. |
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« Reply #3999 on: 11:22:29, 27-03-2008 » |
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There you go, inko - three weeks of change: if you hate it, you'll soon be away, if you enjoy it, a chance to make contacts, perhaps.  |
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« Reply #4000 on: 11:47:21, 27-03-2008 » |
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HAH. I just got asked if I was interested in a derivatives job with Bear Stearns. I just couldn't bring myself to say no straight off, so they're sending on my cv to the company now.
(they said that it'd be temp work, contracted on a week-by-week basis. Anyway: pretty funny stuff...)
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« Reply #4001 on: 12:03:24, 27-03-2008 » |
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temp work, contracted on a week-by-week basis
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« Reply #4002 on: 13:53:42, 27-03-2008 » |
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There you go, inko - three weeks of change: if you hate it, you'll soon be away, if you enjoy it, a chance to make contacts, perhaps. 'zackly. Best thing about temping - you get to leave before you know exactly how badly / how much you buglered up. Of course, there comes the day when a company you worked for as a temp offers you a permanent job and you find out   |
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« Reply #4004 on: 14:36:10, 27-03-2008 » |
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Do you have a Salvation Army/ charity shop in the neighbourhood? You might strike lucky there. I'd have assumed what you needed was a bear suit though.
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