[thechat] "Name it" contest

[Martin Burns]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Tony Crockford wrote:

>
> > >Why not "milliways"?
> > >
> > >but thusly:
> > >
> > >  mWaze
> >
> > Might I ask what that means or represents?

> Milliways is the "restaurant at the end of the universe" (Douglas
> Adams - hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)

3rd result on Google:
http://www.red-shift.net/miliways.htm
(not so much 'with apologies to DNA' as 'sorry, I just ripped the
chapter')

Cheers
Martin

--
"Names, once they are in common use, quickly
 become mere sounds, their etymology being
 buried, like so many of the earth's marvels,
 beneath the dust of habit." - Salman Rushdie