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Subject: 
Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sun, 11 Jul 1999 00:59:18 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
[...]
Call it Boxtrot and let's get the group up.

Let's make sure that it's not some twisted slang word for a lap dance or
something like that first.

--Todd

p.s.  Here's what Merriam-Webster online <www.m-w.com> says for "trot":

Main Entry: 1 trot
Pronunciation: 'trät
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from troter to trot, of
   Germanic origin; akin to Old High German trottOn to tread, Old English
   tredan
Date: 14th century
1 (a1): a moderately fast gait of a quadruped (as a horse) in which the
  legs move in diagonal pairs  (a2): a jogging gait of a human that falls
  between a walk and a run   (b): a ride on horseback
2 : an old woman
3 : a literal translation of a foreign text
4 plural : DIARRHEA



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  Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
 
(...) I hear you, but don't forget that sometimes the best names are thought of first, and that we have to decide how much analysis the name actually deserves! :-) Me, I don't think the name is nearly as important as the process, which isn't under (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)

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