On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 11:44:54 +0000, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > >Seeing a name like BS2000 or BS3000 made me think of a hypothetical marketing >department where their product is so useless, but they proudly sell it, by >naming it BS2000. >They call the new and improved version BS3000. > >It's like how the wall street laughs at the rest of the world when they name >things CDOs, etc. >Sure, CDO has a normal meaning but I'm sure some guy in a suit somewhere knows >its *real* expanded name (inside joke). > Well, the Urban Dictionary entry for CDO links me to "Bear Stearned", clearly more BS.
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