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"The Medway Handyman" writes:
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Get it half back together, then suddenly realise
theres an essential ping****it missing which I hadn't
taken off.

Ping****it! What a perfect description!

Sadly, I can't claim to have invented it. First heard it some
6 or 7 years ago from a PC lab guy when I was working in the US.
Then I saw someone mention it in this newsgroup a few months back.
A Google search shows it mostly comes up in motorcycle forums, and
as it happens, the PC lab guy I first heard it from was a biker
who was in to stripping his engines down (there were bits of them
on the shelf in his office).

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Andrew Gabriel
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