unrelated to the google fiber thing, but on the same topic as what other
nations nickname things. I found out recently Australians like to refer to
americans as seppos, in reference to septic tanks, which I assume is a way
of saying they are in awe of our waste management abilities

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:48 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:

> There's a British newspaper/website that always refers to Google as the
> Chocolate Factory.  Why?  Is this a Willy Wonka reference?  Again, why?
> Not sure if this is meant as positive or negative.  British sense of humor
> is sometimes difficult to understand.
>
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> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Real threat
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> On 4/18/19 8:17 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
> > Google Fiber's trajectory runs parallel to other people we've probably
> > all met in this industry.  With a surface level of knowledge
> > everything looks easy.  Then they get into it and find out the easy
> > parts they knew about were like 10% of the story.
> >
>
> In the beginning, cities were tripping over themselves to be next because
> fiber! and Google! Once that stopped happening then things got real.
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