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beware car-buff postMy dear Jackie, I'm shocked! I had no idea you drive naked! 
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Whoa, thanks, Max. Sorry I have such a poor memory. And, Sweet WO'N--there's a LOT about me that you don't know! 
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I've got a Peugeot 406 GLX 2 litre saloon which is currently doing about 180 miles a day. It may be built in Coventry, but it has built-in quality, something signally lacking in the slew of Rovers and Vauxhalls littering Britain's roads. In some cases literally. End of car stuff ...
A new work place word for you all. It is (hold your breath) dewank. It arose at an analysts' meeting held yesterday at my newish place of employment to consider a job description. Such meetings make me feel ancient, because I think I could give 10 years to the next oldest member of the team.
One analyst (a bloke) described it as "wanky". Another analyst (a woman [of the female persuasion]) offered to "dewank" it. An email was duly circulated late this afternoon with the subject title DEWANKED JD. The attached JD document was similarly entitled "Dewanked JD". Comments were emailed among nearly 40 analysts talking about this or that item requiring more or less dewanking.
The lady in question duly entered the task in her timesheet as "dewankification".
Rarely, in my experience, has a word taken on such a clearly new meaning and gone into general use at such a pace. The entire firm now knows about it because someone put it up on the intranet under "Education"!
As a further aside, it's interesting that the email Nazi didn't clamp down on it. It does on damned near everything else.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Quite p;robably because it's a Wank(el) engine?
TEd, who just joined the rotary
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I know what a wanker is, but.Dewanking is either painful or a repair job, or possibly both, however, it isn't very *clear at this juncture. 
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Working for a computer manufacturing company with ISP and satellite communication divisions, we run across MANY instances where our customers' "problems" are of their own making, reflecting their lack of skill with the technology.
I heard a term somewhere in my travels and have introduced it here. It's a little easier to use and much less inflammatory than "user error" whilst within earshot of the customer...
CBLFE - Carbon Based Life Form Error
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CBLFE... I like it! The others I've heard that stuck with me were the "I-D-ten-T error" ID10T..., and the "chair/keyboard interface malfunction". So rude, and yet so true. 
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Rhuby et al
I am simply bursting to show you (and whomever else may be interested) a pic of my classic. Please email me (see profile) and I'll send a pic.
She's a 1964 Holden "EH" model - generally acknowledged as the most popular car ever built in Australia - then and now. (Ford drivers would dispute this but, being Ford drivers, they aren't capable or qualified to have an opinion.)
Modelled upon the Chevvies of that time the EH was the first to offer GM's whopping big (tongue in cheek emoticon) 149ci 6 cylinder motor!!! This block served as the basis for all subsequent holdens until the mid seventies - though its standard displacement grew to 202ci.
I drive it daily and you'd be amazed at the amount of people that stop me to reminisce about the one they had - or their Dad had (or they had their first sexual encounter in the back seat!!). I have to allow an extra ten minutes when I go to the shops because there's always somebody that wants to look under the hood or have a chat. Funny thing you know, I used to drive a V6 SAAB that cost around US$26,000 and nobody gave a rat's arse. The Old Girl on the other hand is worth around US$5,000 and everybody wants to be my friend!!
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