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How many of you know what this paragraph is talking about--without having to look it up? "At around 8:30 a.m., most of the 300 or so on hand here filed into an auditorium where co-organizer David Berlind proceeded to invite anyone in the crowd with a mashup they wanted to show off to step forward and introduce it. One caveat: They got only 30 seconds to explain their projects. It was like Demo on crack."
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No clue. But context is a virtue. 
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raises hand.  but then I read boingboing...
formerly known as etaoin...
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I'm sitting on my hands, so writing this isn't easy.
Nor do I know what boingboing is.
I think there was a cartoon character named Johnny Boingboing in the 50s or 60s - probably unrelated.
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I had to look it up. Interesting article.
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No idea, but ASp is right, context is important.
I'm sure there are some paragraphs in our product documents that would be incomprehensible if there wasn't all the information around them.
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Quote:
I'm sitting on my hands, so writing this isn't easy.
Nor do I know what boingboing is.
I think there was a cartoon character named Johnny Boingboing in the 50s or 60s - probably unrelated.
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Gerald Mcboing boing
My brother was a fan of the book.
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Thanks,
It's gratifying to know that there were other fans in addition to myself and my older brother and parents.
I should have remembered the name, I was, after all, almost one at the time.
What a retro rush BOING! I just got.
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I had so many of those rushes that I numbered them but stopped when I got to 707.
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Easy. Dave conducted a show-and-tell
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