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RE: Language, Really OT (was [OM] Cricket Match)

Subject: RE: Language, Really OT (was [OM] Cricket Match)
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:24:00 +1000
>>I suggest we start using the terms Olympus and Zuiko as verbs. Any
>>offers as to precise meanings?
>
> Olympus, v. To so influence another that the individual falls under a
>                     compulsion to acquire equipment designed by only
>                       one Japanese designer by the name of Maitani.
>
> Zuiko, v.      To snatch a bargain in Olympus equipment from the
>                     extended hand of another who has just struck a
>                     Doris [q.v.] with a supplier of Maitani equipment.
>
>---------------------------------------------
>les clark / edgewater, nj / usa
>---------------------------------------------

So one is a form of drug pushing and the other a subset of 'Gazump'?
AndrewF



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