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 [Boingboing.hexten.net] Boing Boing: March 2004: Grant Barrett, Assistant Editor, Lexical Reference and Project Editor, Historical Dictionary of American Slang for Oxford University Press sez: "The Macquarie Dictionary ('Australia's National Dictionary') indicates that the Australian ug/ugh/ugg boots derive from a trademark. The OED concurs and defines them as 'a proprietary name for a type of soft, sheepskin boot' indicating that it is used in Australian and New Zealand.

[Radio.weblogs.com] The Lopsided Poopdeck: My friend Simson Garfinkel wrote a great piece on the foolishness of selling hard drives that haven't been sanitized:

 [Discourse.net] Discourse.net: Sufficiently Advanced Technology Archives: My friend Simpson Garfinkel, .In fact, only 10 percent of the drives I purchased had been properly sanitized.

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