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. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2019 10:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Real threat > > 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. > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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