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"Trevyn Watson" <4tee2@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:3C3E3299.7050108@rogers.com...
> > xyzzy is a company that makes front shock forks for mountain bikes...!
> I did not know that.
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> I named my bot "xyzzy" because of the obvious links to the names of the
> axes, and also because it was a magic word (that transported you) in
> advent, an old text-based adventure game. More info here:
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> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/xyzzy.html
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> Btw, a google search on "xyzzy bike mountain shock" (no quotes) doesnt
> turn up anything about a company that makes mountain bike shocks.
Oops. It's zzyzx. Argh. Shows how often I buy stuff for my bike!
Iain
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