From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Crossrail TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) names
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:39:31 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2012-02-29T07:39:31-08:00 [thread overview]
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> I am not a native English speaker, so in a first moment I interpreted "boring machine," not as a machine that makes holes, but as a machine that... makes you bored (it does not amuse you). :-)
Lol! I had a similar reaction. A good source of playing with words...
Boring Tunnel Machine
Turing Machine (Turing being a contraction of Tu[nnel] [Bo]ring).
G.
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2012-02-29 13:42 Crossrail TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) names phil.clayton
2012-02-29 15:31 ` mockturtle
2012-02-29 15:39 ` Gautier write-only [this message]
2012-03-13 21:43 ` phil.clayton
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