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Hey, I wrote this neat little program for you guys called the IMAC User Notification Tool

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At that point the French office pointed out that 'pet' in French means 'fart', so all the marketing material had to be scrapped.

I believe that there's a least one company that makes its money by checking tentative product names against a database of infelicitous words in most of the world's languages.

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