Building a Laptop with a Board like this?

[Martyn Fox]

In article <4c0dbe0217steve.pampling@argonet.co.uk>, Steven Pampling
<steve.pampling@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
Naughty word?

I heard somewhere recently that the word "putin" is extremely rude in French.

It's also the name of the President of Russia!

Martyn

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[Reg Hems]

In article <4c0df035f8mfox@argonet.co.uk> Martyn Fox wrote: In article <4c0dbe0217steve.pampling@argonet.co.uk> Steven Pampling <steve.pampling@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
Naughty word?
I heard somewhere recently that the word "putin" is extremely rude in French.

Not really. The word "Putain" merely refers to a active member of the
horizontal profession.

It is also also used as the equivalent of "oh damn":
"Oh putain" - "Oh pute" - "Oh merde"
It's also the name of the President of Russia!

That's Putin. Pronounced Pooteen.

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[Steve Knattress]

In article <4c0df6cd7bstuartwinsor@argonet.co.uk>,
Stuart Winsor <stuartwinsor@argonet.co.uk> wrote: In article <4c0df035f8mfox@argonet.co.uk>, Martyn Fox <mfox@argonet.co.uk> wrote: In article <4c0dbe0217steve.pampling@argonet.co.uk>, Steven Pampling <steve.pampling@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
Naughty word?
I heard somewhere recently that the word "putin" is extremely rude in French.
It's also the name of the President of Russia!
Anyone remember an arab gentleman in the news a lot at one time called Mr Fachmi. Don't know if that's spelt correctly, but I seem to remember news readers being extremely careful how they pronounced it. :-)
Stuart

An American spokesman during the war didn't seem to last too long, a Mr
Wayne Kerr. I'm not sure of the spelling but the BBC radio news readers
were very careful of the stress they place on each name.

Steve.

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[Brian D]

On 13 Jul,
Steve Knattress <engineer@catnextdoor.com> wrote:
An American spokesman during the war didn't seem to last too long, a Mr Wayne Kerr. I'm not sure of the spelling but the BBC radio news readers were very careful of the stress they place on each name.
A company called Wayne Kerr used to make Video oscillators, otherwise known
as W******.
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[Liam Gretton]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Steve Knattress wrote:
An American spokesman during the war didn't seem to last too long, a Mr Wayne Kerr. I'm not sure of the spelling but the BBC radio news readers were very careful of the stress they place on each name.

He was a broadcaster on On The Hour, about 10 years ago ;-)

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