Gippsland Geekfest 2016 (in Australia!)

[puddingwrestler]

As a child, my first encounter with Scunthorpe was in a book by Spike Milligan. I assumed it was a fictional name...

[NARSES2]

Sunny Scunnie ? New it very well. As a town it produced the most steel of any in the UK. Basically one big steelworks and the only one where they named the blast furnaces - Queen's Anne, Mary, Bess and Victoria. Every where else just gave them No's. Works is still there but no idea of it's scale now, been retired to long

[rickshaw]

I would be remiss not to mention picturesque Poowong.
Fun fact: I was testing out the obscenity filter on the website at the school where I work, and added the word 'poo' to the list of words to censor. A few weeks later, an equine studies ecursion was organised to Poowong. It was put on the school bulletin, which was run via the website. The result? A trip to <CENSORED!>wong.

I once worked for a Government department.  They purchased an email filter device (basically a computer) and I was placed in charge of configuring it.  After reading the manual I mentioned to my superior that there were quite a few email filters.  I asked if he wanted them implemented?  "Go ahead!"  He declared.  I did so.  Email for the entire department slowed and halted.  It appears Australian public servants have a much more robust vocabulary than most Americans!  I was instructed to turn the filters off immediately. 

[zenrat]

I would be remiss not to mention picturesque Poowong.
Fun fact: I was testing out the obscenity filter on the website at the school where I work, and added the word 'poo' to the list of words to censor. A few weeks later, an equine studies ecursion was organised to Poowong. It was put on the school bulletin, which was run via the website. The result? A trip to <CENSORED!>wong.

I once worked for a Government department.  They purchased an email filter device (basically a computer) and I was placed in charge of configuring it.  After reading the manual I mentioned to my superior that there were quite a few email filters.  I asked if he wanted them implemented?  "Go ahead!"  He declared.  I did so.  Email for the entire department slowed and halted.  It appears Australian public servants have a much more robust vocabulary than most Americans!  I was instructed to turn the filters off immediately. 

And yet we get overly sensitive about the word root and describe the piece of equipment which connects many computers so it rhymes with flauter rather than with fluter.

[NARSES2]

It can get interesting when your company merges with an overseas based one, especially when those overseas tend to speak better English than we did and we couldn't speak a word of theirs.  There were a couple of words which were perfectly legitimate nouns in English but uncouth words in the other lots slang. They used to think it was hilarious when we would "say have you got the latest figures for so and so business". Didn't let on for months