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wtf…
It’s a joke. If you don’t think it’s funny, you can move along. Sorry.
That’d be a neat trick since it wasn’t even on the voting list.
P
Ah, i see, the Hippocoon’s name is Constantine…
Seriously? The second part of that is a pretty offensive racial slur in some parts of the world (well, in English as far as I knew, but hey, maybe it’s a British thing)
It was a joke. I apologize if the word ‘hippo-coon’ is a racial slur and you were offended. That was obviously not the point. I have never heard of either part of the word ‘hippo-coon’ being a racial slur – not in the northeastern US as far as I know at least.
‘Hippo-coon’ was a code name that had been proposed but was rejected early in the process.
‘Coon’ can be a racial slur against people of African decent, but I’ve only heard of it being used in Australia about Australian Aborigines. It’s also the brand name of a cheese here, but that’s unrelated – it was (apparently) named after Edward Coon, the creator of a cheese making process, although there has been some controversy about the name…
Yeah, my first thought on seeing this (as a brit) was also to the racist implications of the word ‘coon’ – http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/coon/ . Ah well, you can’t go checking for implied racism for all locales…
Oh don’t worry, I’m not offended (though I have had that word used ‘against’ me before…), just seemed a rather risky choice of words!
Obviously there was no harm meant. I didn’t realise it was a joke suggestion, really thought that’d be the F12 codename. And who could blame me after the Ubuntu distro names?
So, enjoying your tablet PC?
look! It can be retrofitted!
I was crossing my fingers for piranhamoose. Just think of the dual screen monitor wallpaper.
http://wondermark.com/tag/piranhamoose/
awesome, you are more open mind than ubuntu folks, they rejected “the epileptic elephant”. feel free to name F13 like that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocoon
And this is what I thought of: http://cliqueclack.s3.amazonaws.com/tv/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/the-coon-425×312.png
How can it be? it wasn’t legal approved.
It was just a joke. Seriously. See above.