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- From: spinoza@next06wor.wam.umd.edu (Yon Bonnie Laird of Cairn Robbing)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
- Subject: Re: discrepency in Guide
- Message-ID: <18151@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:05:11 GMT
- References: <1993Jan16.210711.1914@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan16.210711.1914@netcom.com> dholmes@netcom.com (Dennis
- Holmes) writes:
- > sgupta@coral.cs.unm.edu (Sarang Gupta) writes:
- >
- > >But this isn't really conclusive evidence, since they changed a planet
- of
- > >biros into a planet of ballpoint pens, since they figured American
- audiences
- > >wouldn't know what a biro is (I sure as heck dont [send Email or
- respond
- >
- > I believe a biro IS a ballpoint pen. I wish they had left it as "biro"
- and
- > just footnoted it or something. "Biroid" makes a much cooler word than
- > "ballpointoid."
- > --
- Nope. Biro is the last name of the guy who invented hte ballpoint pen. He
- sold out to BIC, if I remember correctly.....
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- Dallas won! The Redskins lost! Life is good..........
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- ciao&shalom
- jeff
-