Re: you say vegemite, I say nannite

From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 05:47:14 MST


Its a tiny mite that eats the crops here. They collect them, and mash them
into an edible dark-brown paste, which we spread on bread. Mmmmm.....

Emlyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Marlow" <johnmarrek@yahoo.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 6:47 PM
Subject: you say vegemite, I say nannite

> Possibly; but nano to nannites seems to follow some
> kind of basic grammar. Nanites looks as though it
> would be pronounced nay-nights. (Then of course you
> have lovely terms like hippopotami.) And "molecular
> assemblers" is right out.
>
> What the heck is a vegemite, anyway? Been wondering
> that since Men At Work.
>
> john marlow
>
> --
>
> Michael Broderick wrote:
>
> At 02:51 PM 7/01/01 -0800, John Marlow wrote:
>
> >I prefer nannites; call me eccentric.
>
> Shouldn't that be `eccenntric'?
>
> Damien Broderick
>
>
>
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