mouse nipples

[william pointon]

wrecks the damned keyboard when you lick them too - billp

On Friday, Sep 9, 2005, at 18:25 US/Eastern, der Mouse wrote:

>>> (I have no idea when mouse nipples first appeared on laptops, but I
>>> imagine they're on topic just :-)
>> Aren't you concerned about offending somebody by calling it a
>> "nipple"?
>
> Now now, if I want to take offense I can do so myself. :-)
>
>> Before the product was released some IBM'ers behind the scenes called
>> it "the clitoris"
>
> I don't find laptop cursor controls as much fun to play with, though.
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