Deflating news reached El Reg's headline writers this week in the form of RIM's name change to BlackBerry. Of course, it also launched two new phones running its QNX-powered smartphone operating system: BlackBerry OS 10. Reg reader SouthPacificPom noted this may be the end of snigger-worthy puns: "This is a sad day indeed. …

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Friday 1st February 2013 14:20 GMT Anonymous Coward

BLACK berry?!

and I can't even bring myself to thinking about how derogatory the "berry" part might be....

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1. Friday 1st February 2013 15:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: BLACK berry?!
  
  Well we know how you blow a raspberry ... how do you manage a blackberry?
  
  Given a quick google allows a definition for BBW what exactly does BBM stand for?
  
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Friday 1st February 2013 14:29 GMT Lamont Cranston

Should I be worried about my "pancreas levels"?

I wasn't before, but maybe I've been neglecting them?

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1. Saturday 2nd February 2013 04:19 GMT Captain DaFt
  
  Re: Should I be worried about my "pancreas levels"?
  
  Depends... My grandmother had a checkup that found a high pancreas level, and here all this time we thought it as a goiter!
  
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Friday 1st February 2013 14:53 GMT Michael Habel

I have to aggree w/the INQ on this One; It should simply be called Crackberry and be done w/it.

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1. Friday 1st February 2013 16:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  crankberry?
  
  crumberr?
  
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2. Monday 4th February 2013 03:36 GMT Martin Budden
  
  Dangleberry, Tagnut, and Winnit. (Sounds like a firm of patent lawyers)
  
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Saturday 2nd February 2013 17:16 GMT John Smith 19

I guess it was to do with the pacific rim.

Not any other kind.

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