Re: Technical Review

[Didier Verna]

Akim Demaille wrote:

> > On Friday 20 April 2001  7:12 pm, Akim Demaille wrote:
> > > >>>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > Gary> Salut Akim!
> > >
> > > Coucou !
> > 
> > Qu'est-ce que c'est?
> 
> According to my dictionary ``peek-a-boo''.  Very hard to describe :)
> It's kind of `salut', but in contexts where you're arrival is somewhat
> unexpected (in a very weak manner, I do not mean ``surprising'').

        What you mean is actually the arrival of a cuckoo clock's bird (coucou
is cuckoo in french):

     {Cuckoo clock}, a clock so constructed that at the time for
        striking it gives forth sounds resembling the cry of the
        cuckoo.

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