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05-22-2004, 03:55 PM
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 ost_uid0="Scooter"][color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="mudshark"]OT: Now that you've changed your avatar, [bost_uid0]Scooter[/bost_uid0], and before I forget, who was that in your previous one?[/quoteost_uid0]Previous avatar was Roger Delgado, who played The Master, the Doctor's nemesis, in Doctor Who during the early Seventies.[/color ost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0][color=#000000 ost_uid0]Ah, okay. Thanks. I couldn't decide whether that was someone I should recognize, but my [iost_uid0]Who[/iost_uid0] viewing pretty much begins and ends with the Tom Baker period.[quote ost_uid0]Ferengi is the Hindi word for "outsider". It was commonly used to refer to the Europeans when the British still had India. [/quoteost_uid0]The word may come originally from the Malay [iost_uid0]farang[/iost_uid0], but this is one one linguists and etymologists argue over. Regardless of origin, the meaning ("outsider" or "foreigner") remains consistent.[/colorost_uid0]
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