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From: vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Wankers Corner, OR
Message-ID: <1012@wanginst.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 08:25:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: wanginst.1012
Posted: Fri Aug 30 08:25:23 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Sep-85 05:05:45 EDT
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Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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> => Dear Not:
> => 
> =>      What a straight line!  You even specifically invite me to use the
> => AAA map.  OK, on your AAA Portland map, look just east of Tualatin and
> => south of Lake Oswego, at the intersection of SW Borland Rd and Stafford Rd.
> => It's at O8 on my map.
> => 
> ... Wankers rhymes with bonkers, not with chancres.  Oh well.
> 
And why does pronunciation matter, you ask?  Because in British slang,
a wanker (rhymes with "chancre") is someone who spends his private moments,
uh, wanking.  I heard about this yesterday because at Wang Laboratories, Inc.,
in Lowell, we have a Burger King, which someone suggested ought to be
called "Wang King."  A British expatriate at the table promptly burst into
hysterics.

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Ephraim Vishniac
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