Subject: Re: BOINC is slang for the F-word
From: Martin 53N 1W
Date: 28/06/2004, 15:37
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Peter Hickman wrote:
Lloyd wrote:

The TV show Cheers used to regularly use the term BOINCed in place of
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And you people *adopted* that disguised F-word as an acronym?

Truly, the Evil One has taken full hold on SETI.  It is now named
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No the work they used was BONK!

A word with a long and noble history and still in current use. By the
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Fucking, no matter what you call it, is not of itself evil.


...And its good and about time that Science played the Media and Marketing 'Evil Ones' off at their own game (multiple puns intended)!

The extra publicity can only be for the common good (:-))

Cheers,
Martin

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