It is occasionally referred to as a Bosie (or Bosey) after its inventor Bernard Bosanquet; in Australia it is commonly referred to as a wrong'un (and in India as the wrong one, which led to the naming of the doosra, meaning the other one, named by its inventor Saqlain Mushtaq
August 13, 2007 6:46 AM
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Did I miss the memo? Are we now required to do eponysterical front page posts?
posted by googly to MetaFilter-related at 6:46 AM (121 comments total)
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Astro Zombie: "The Bender Brewer Project. Inspired by an episode of Futurama in which boozy robot Bender is used to brew beer, Star Wars ASCII animator Simon Janson decided to build his own Bender to use to brew his own beer..."
Ambrosia Voyeur: "3D design artist and Filmmaker, father-to-be and fan of long titles extraordinaire, Transfatty, aka Patrick O'Brien...The DVD is clips from his forthcoming film, October 5, 1974, his ongoing personal documentary about his journey to the end with ALS."
homunculus: "The Visual Image of Chemistry: Perspectives from the History of Art and Science."
madamjujujive: "The Pardoner's Tale - adapted to rap by Baba Brinkman, who has been rapping Chaucer tales for a few years now..."
wallstreet1929: "This isn't 1998. There's no model for what's happening now in the housing and mortgage industries. 116 mortgage lenders have imploded since 2006. 11 hedge funds have imploded in just the last couple months. Time to warm up the helicopters?"
Let me just state for the record that, much as I like cricket, silly plastic eyes, popular search engines, and unfathomably large numbers, I, for one, refuse to follow this rule.
posted by googly at 6:46 AM on August 13, 2007