From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-11-05T04:14:09+09:00
Subject: Re: This is how we Roll

Giles Bowkett wrote:
>> Note, the project is called "Roll", but that doesn't always sound
>> right in a sentence, so I call it 'Rolls' too, whenever that fits
>> better.
>>     
>
> Just a note - the Rails team was kind of surprised to discover that
> "rails" was drug slang for lines of cocaine. Rolls is also drug slang,
> at least on the East Coast, for Ecstasy.
>
> Obviously this whole R, L, S combination is cursed in terms of open
> source project names that turn out to be accidental drug references.
> That's why I'm doing away with that entire set of phonemes for my
> naming scheme, and releasing a project called Acid instead. No R, no
> L, no S. I'm good.
>
>   
Sometimes I just want to smack people ... how do we weed out that sort 
of thing? Maybe I'm just a crank.

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