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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (77051)	3/6/2000 6:38:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Don, This reeks of when Ted Turner invented The Goodwill Games and banned his wrestling show from using the phrase "foreign object." The announcers got to him by saying "Ric Flair pulled an international object out of his trunks and hit Dusty Rhodes in the face with it" so often that Turner got out of the censorship biz. <g?

To: Don Lloyd who wrote (77051)	3/6/2000 9:14:00 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 132070

The French themselves (mostly) laugh long and loud at this kind of nonsense. I recall when the then ministere du culture, Jacques Toubon, was called "Mister Allgood" in the news media there. Here's a true story though - I saw it myself on TV in 1997 when Jacques Chirac was at the inauguration of La Bibliotheque Francois Mitterand. An employee was demoing one of the computerized systems, clicking on menus and all, and Chirac suddenly asks, en directe, "Qu'appelle-t-on au juste, souris"? This was broadcast on the 8 o'clock news! He didn't know what a mouse was!! Thereafter, he was parodied in the media as referring to a computer mouse as a "mulot", the word for "field mouse"! In some fairness, this is more a reflection of total separation from day to day living than computers per se. When is the last time Klintoon has been behind the wheel of a car?? Too many years high up in government tends to isolate one, n'est-ce pas? One of the many reasons to have term limits :-)