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From: Philip Gooch <philg@easynet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Pro Dev pics
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:00:41 +0000
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Reminds me of an incident at work recently.

I had been developing some 'tools' for our editorial staff  to use and had
been demonstrating them to some people. Anyway, my boss went up to one of
the (female) managers and said, with a straight face, 'Have you seen Phil's
tool?'

Phil

Steven Osman wrote:

> No, not just Australia.
>
> I'm in New York and got a kick out of it.
>
> Steven "Saucy TOOL" Osman
>
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:02:48 +1100, Toby Sargeant
> <toby@fulcrum.com.au> wrote:
>
> >Robert Swan wrote:
> >> The developer tool is slightly smaller (but the same shape) as a pc
> >> tower system. Its black and has TOOL written on the sides.
> >                                  ^^^^
> >Without knowing much internationl slang, is it only in Australia where
> >this is going to be met with gales of laughter?
> >
> >(ok... not gales, but the people I told about this all chuckled)
> >
> >Toby.