I hadn't heard that one before. Sounds like it is due to a rhyming between yanks / septic tanks and at least some number of Australians thinking Americans are full of shit.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 8:45 AM Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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