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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by Graham24 on Friday August 16, 2013 @10:35AM (#6224215)
Side Issue: do Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"? I'd have thought it'd been dollar.

And what exactly is a po-dunk school when it's at home?

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by erichocean on Friday August 16, 2013 @10:42AM (#6224266)
> do Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"?

Yes.

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by api on Friday August 16, 2013 @10:52AM (#6224326)
(1) Yes

(2) A po-dunk school is any school not on the coasts and not in the top ten, possibly excluding a small number of top-tier schools in "flyover country."

(*) Flyover country is the large area you fly over when traveling between, say, Boston and San Francisco.

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by dragonwriter on Friday August 16, 2013 @11:35AM (#6224631)
> do Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"?

Yes, as well as the similarly anglocentric (but somewhat oppposite in perspective) aphorism: "Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves."

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by mindcrime on Friday August 16, 2013 @11:18AM (#6224485)
do Americans really say "penny-wise/pound-foolish"?

Absolutely.

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