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Go Ogle Moonface

Three cheers for incorporated subversion's James Farmer and his theory about the naming of Google.

You see the real source for the name [Google] is Enid Blyton, in particular from The Magic Faraway Tree series where Silky and Moon Face are forever serving up google buns, pop cakes and toffee shocks. I know this because I've been reading them to our two beautiful girls over the last year and can prove it
Well, I'd completely forgotten about Land of the Slaps [now banned?] and Saucepan Man, which I loved when I was younger, and now I haven't. Plus, let's face it, it's more fun than googol as a source.

Thanks James - made me smile :)

Posted by on February 23, 2005 11:37 PM |
See also : etymology : amusing : Google : Enid_Blyton : books.Faraway_Tree

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