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Re: Famous operational issues


From: Jethro R Binks <jethro.binks () strath ac uk>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 19:17:16 +0000 (GMT)

On Fri, 19 Feb 2021, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:

I explain using my "talking to a 5 year old" voice that it 
most certainly is a router. He tells me that lying to airport security 
is a federal offense, and starts looming at me. I adjust my attitude 
and start explaining that it's like a computer and makes the Internet 
work. He gruffly hands me back the router, I put it in my bag and 
scurry away. As I do so, I hear him telling his colleague that it 
wasn't a router, and that he certainly knows what a router is, because 
he does woodwork…

Well, in his defense, he wasn’t wrong…   :-)

This is wjy, in the UK, we tend to pronounce "router" as "router", and 
"router" as "router", so there's no confusion.

You're welcome.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks, Network Manager,
Information Services Directorate, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, number SC015263.


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