In Portugal, there was a funny story on the subject. There was this doubtful goal on a football (soccer, for those who understand football with less foot action) game between rivals Benfica and Sporting. A couple of days after, there was this (humorous) posting in a bulletin board, stating that referee Pierluigi Collina had given an interview to a certain italian magazine (whose name I can't remember right now, but was later revealed that did not even exist), had analysed the goal, and that it was an invalid goal.
A newspaper plagiarized it neraly verbatim as news the day after, obviously uncredited, both in its paper and in its online edition. The thing was fully uncovered and mocked upon in the same bulletin board, and the article vanished from the paper's online edition.
I guess sometimes there can be a very thin line between searching for a sound resemblance and finding the fun of it by just mishearing it.. Anyway, I was just establising an analogy for both being, in reality, same-sound-different-spelling versions of the original meaning behind the name..;)
Well, in my case the break was of (only?) two years, and the only problems I faced were the economical fraglity -- for having quit my job -- and having forgotten some important subjects, for lack of training/applying them in real life.
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Maybe they're twin sisters... ;)
In Portugal, there was a funny story on the subject. There was this doubtful goal on a football (soccer, for those who understand football with less foot action) game between rivals Benfica and Sporting. A couple of days after, there was this (humorous) posting in a bulletin board, stating that referee Pierluigi Collina had given an interview to a certain italian magazine (whose name I can't remember right now, but was later revealed that did not even exist), had analysed the goal, and that it was an invalid goal.
A newspaper plagiarized it neraly verbatim as news the day after, obviously uncredited, both in its paper and in its online edition. The thing was fully uncovered and mocked upon in the same bulletin board, and the article vanished from the paper's online edition.
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lol, that's quite "who-came-first-the-egg-or-the-chicken"'y ;)
I guess sometimes there can be a very thin line between searching for a sound resemblance and finding the fun of it by just mishearing it.. ;)
Anyway, I was just establising an analogy for both being, in reality, same-sound-different-spelling versions of the original meaning behind the name..
That way of naming things is indeed very usual; for instance, "Apache Server", was named after its status of "a patchy server".. ;)
That's more than right: the freaking EXE even recreates itself, if you delete it.. btw: is that capital "OR" on the word "explorer" deliberate? ;)
Well, in my case the break was of (only?) two years, and the only problems I faced were the economical fraglity -- for having quit my job -- and having forgotten some important subjects, for lack of training/applying them in real life.